Within the framework of 10th Anniversary Regional Conference "GITI 2017" of Georgia\'s Cyber Security and Information Technologies Development, analytical web-platform of State Audit Office - "Budget Monitor" became the winner of the Georgia’s IT Innovation (GITI) award. Among 50 projects in 15 nominations, the "Budget Monitor" was awarded in the category "Best Online Information Source".
The competition is held annually by LEPL "Data Exchange Agency" and the ICT Business Council, which is a platform for the development of information-communication technologies.
The conference focuses exclusively on the development of e-governance in Georgia as well as in region, information and cyber security projects and on the process of introduction of technological innovations in these projects. The conference is concluded with the award of authors of the year’s best IT projects.
Recently, "Budget Monitor" has won two more international awards. In particular, the "Budget Monitor" won a worldwide competition of fiscal transparency organized by the Global Initiative of Fiscal Transparency (GIFT). Currently the Regional Forum of Open Governance Partnership is being held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the "Budget Monitor" was awarded by GIFT.
The web-platform has also won an award in the competition organized by the UN World Summit Awards (WSA). Almost 400 projects from 180 UN member states participated in this year´s WSA contest, where the “Budget Monitor” became a winner in the category Government & Citizen Engagement.
Webplatform "Budget Monitor" is a unique analytical portal which delivers information about public finance management process to citizens via easy-to-understand data visualizations. Particularly, the platform enables members of Parliament, civil society representatives, interested experts and other stakeholders to choose their sphere of interest and immediately obtain up-to-date reliable information about state revenues, expenses, public debt, infrastructural projects, program budgeting, public procurement and etc.
Besides, the platform presents audit findings and recommendations conducted by State Audit Office using simple visual filters. Also, it enables citizens to engage in improvement of public finance management processes.
