In California, for example, it cost
$21,000 to implement the State’s spending trans-
parency website and its annual operational costs
are estimated to be below $40,000. Visitors to
the website report unnecessary spending to the
government and, after only a few months of op-
eration, the website had already saved the state
over $20 million. In a similar manner, the trans-
parency website in Texas, just a few months after
launching, had already helped achieve savings of
over $5 million.