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I'm looking for examples of innovative use of government expenditure data.

Examples:
Where Does the Money Go?

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Imagining India

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Dept of Why Not?

Now the cellphone industry is trying its own approach. The theory is that you will browse for deals when you are at the store, or maybe receive deal alerts when you are nearby, and simply use the phone as a virtual coupon when you are at the cashier.

The idea has lots of promise. Whether it’s worth your while depends on where you live, how much you use the products featured by these coupon services and how much work you’re willing to do for a bargain.

Of the services emerging in the nascent cellular-coupon industry, two — Cellfire and 8Coupons — offer good examples of the state of the art. Both are free, and will work on virtually any phone, but the experience can be disappointing if you use one of the services in the wrong place.

-Cents-Off Coupons and Other Special Deals, via Your Cellphone

Design and Banks

HSBC Private Bank Lounge by Campana Brothers

Bureaucratic Creativity

From a GAO report;

We found that maintenance staff sometimes devise creative solutions, such as the system that the maintenance staff at one site we visited set up to funnel water from a roof leak into a water bottle that then directs the water to a drain. This solution stopped the water from further damaging the building and leaking into areas occupied by staff while deferring the cost of correcting the problem.

Interesting Idea

MyC4.com- 'web-based platform that allows you to look up a list of African entrepreneurs who need funding for their projects (described briefly on the site) and to offer them loans'

via Dani Rodrik