What They Owe You
Has your village received its fair share? You can check whether your community has received the funds due to it by simply selecting your location below.
Royalties Owed
¢ 2,978,206.21Royalties Paid
¢ 3,155,530.55Over Paid
¢ 177,324.34Your royalties were used for:
Education
0
Schools or Universities built
Health
0
Clinics or Hospitals built
Sanitation
0
Water or Sewerage schemes built
Transport
0
Roads or Bridges built
actNOW!
Your Stories:
Abeeku Kodwo
Central Ghana
They also presented a workshop on launching small businesses, sharing methods of making candles using recycled materials such as church candles, milk cartons and leftover fat from butcher shops.
Mining company destroys wetlands
Boahinmaa Dofi
Ashanti, Ghana
Las Lomas and other communities that pursued partnerships with local, state and federal agencies are viewed as models of progress. But living conditions in other colonies still resemble those in third-world countries; the state doesn’t want more of those developments.
Our resurfaced street
How have mining royalties changed your neighbourhood?
What The Numbers Tell Us:
Who Gets What
| >150k | 125k-150k | 100k-125k | 50k-100k | 25k-50k | <25k |
Who Lives There
Ashanti:
Total Population
4,780,380
Area (in sq. km)
24,389
Which Companies Are Active Here:
Help Us Get It Right
All the numbers above are based on official records. But, records are not always right. Sometimes errors slip into the official record, both by mistake and deliberate distortion. Data shapes government policy and company actions, so 'dirty data' can harm our communities. The new age of 'open data' and transparent governance means that us ordinary citizens can now help ensure that errors are corrected. So, if you have evidence that any of the above numbers are wrong, please help us fix them.
You can find the dataset that we used here.
Build Your Own Projects
Want to use the raw data to check the facts, or build your own projects? Where My Money Dey? is built with data that we pulled together from various government and corporate sources. Some of this data had to be 'liberated' from paper documents which we had to digitise, or from static PDFs which we had to turn into machine readable data. Everything has been uploaded onto the openAFRICA.org repository. You're welcome to re-use all of this information, in any way you please and without any cost, as long as you acknowledge where you got the data from.
Where My Money Dey? is a volunteer-built project designed to improve public accountability and civic engagement through active citizenry. The prototype was built at Ghana's first ever d|Bootcamp that brought together journalists and hacktivists in October 2012. A 2nd iteration was refined at a follow-up d|Bootcamp in May 2013 with help from the Code for Africa initiative.
actNOW!
is a standalone project that helps citizens make their voices heard on issues of public interest, by helping them to engage proactively with leaders in government, corporates, and others in positions of power.
actNow! is one of 20 recipients of seed grants in 2012 from the African News Innovation Challenge.
Steal Our Code
The code for both Where My Money Dey? and actNOW! is open source. This means that you can use our code to build your own projects, without any license cost or usage fees. You can find the code for both these projects, plus other African-built transparency technologies, on our umbrella repository at Github.
Still stumped?
If your grassroots community or social justice organisation doesn't have the technical capacity to use the code itself, we might still be able to help. Give us a shout to see if we can connect you with local hacktivists.
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