David Cabo is one of the founders of
the Civio Foundation, which
promotes an engaged citizenry through transparency and data openness.
Among his projects are dondevanmisimpuestos.es, a web for visualizing
the annual budgets from Spanish public administrations, and - together
with
Access Info Europe -
tuderechoasaber.es, an access to information
site for Spain funded by more than 150 small donors using the
crowdfunding platform Goteo. He worked for Access Info Europe and
mySociety in the launch of the european transparency site AsktheEU.org.
David Cabo is vice-president of Pro Bono Publico, an Spanish association
organizing the biggest Open Data hackathon in the country, AbreDatos;
has launched the transparency initiative #adoptaundiputado (Adopt an
MP) to crowdsource the parsing of Spanish parliamentarians' financial
disclosure reports; and has collaborated with investigative reporters in
the extraction and analysis of public records (Looting the Seas, ICIJ).
M.Sc. in Software Engineering, and B.Sc. in Psychology, before focusing
on Open Data and transparency David had extensive technical
experience as senior developer, consultant and software architect in
projects at British Telecom, HM Revenues & Customs, Accenture,
Ericsson or BBVA Global Markets.