Idea: improve the data provided by local governments by creating an open-ness competition

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Here's another idea. Nepal's freedom of information act forces local federal and state authorities to grant public all the public documentation produced by a government office. Which includes documents such as planning, budgets, etc. Because of this concept of e-governance all the local bodies have their websites where they post those office documents. This is in regards to municipalities. 

The reality is, some municipalities are better than others. So some will put forward detailed documents with their original pdfs of their detailed 200 page budget and all the discussion documents and everything in there and some will just half-ass it. 

So for example, Tanahun nagarpalika's budget is 115 page long and it is extremely detailed the up to the line point. Whereas Bhaktapur's budget is like barely seven pages and it's really half-assed because it's not original pdf document. It's scanned. And it's only the numbers that are barely readable. So, the idea is create a non-profit group that rates different government agencies, based on how accessible their data is and make a big deal.

Make a big show out of it annually or semi annually and name and shame the municipalities that do poorly and reward the municipalities that do better. Also provide resources and possibly volunteers, possibly paid, to municipalities that haven't been able to provide good documentation on their website. 

This can probably be easily done in collaboration with open data Nepal?? And there's this other group of nepali programmers open source....something like that.. AD knows that, I have to ask him, but if we can do that, this is an easily achievable project. That will be highly visible.

It'll be good for me, it'll be good for the public, and everybody else and will be good for the country.