![]() With Open Checkbook you can find out where the money goes in the Massachusetts state government, right down to particular salaries or particular payments to vendors. Oram continues, “As a finance project, Open Checkbook hones in on one area of open government: how it spends. The results can give us some insight into the effort it takes at each stage to release government data–and even more significantly, what it takes to increase the data’s value.” I decided to take a look at what’s offered and what’s missing from this site, and to ask someone in the government here in Massachusetts to describe their thinking in creating the site. ![]() The site launched to some acclaim and has received over 220,000 hits. Oram writes, “On December 5, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joined with state treasurer Steven Grossman to create an open government initiative with the promising moniker Open Checkbook. ![]() Andy Oram recently commented on Massachusetts’ newest open government venture, Open Checkbook.
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