Prague City Hall introduces “clickable budget”

Prague City Hall introduced a “click through budget” programme on Tuesday that allows viewers to check on the details of the city’s budget and search through the earnings and expenditures of individual sectors of town hall. The system allows for example for those interested to browse the police income from the city coffers and see what the money is used for, and how much is devoted to what purposes. In presenting the application, Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda noted that the programme was not mandated by any regulation and was the city’s own initiative for combating corruption. NERV, which proposed the idea, has according to the mayor also recommended the clickable budget for the state level.