OpenGov Offers Head-to-Head Budget Comparisons for Government

Government Technology: The financial transparency startup OpenGov has a new tool in its chest of budget visualization apps.

On Oct. 28, OpenGov Co-founders Mike Rosengarten, Nate Levine, Joe Lonsdale and CEO Zac Bookman, announced a new feature called OpenGov Comparisons. The analytics tool, available only for internal users, is marketed as a digital scale that instantly weighs one city’s expenditures and revenues against another's. Financial planners might use the analysis to identify budget benchmarks for expenditures in public safety, transportation, public works and other services.

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