Updates

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Good Data: The Foundation of Open Government

[Joint blog by George Ingram & Sally Paxton - also posted here] 

It is not often one gets excited over a dry, hard-to-understand…

Posted in Blog, U.S. | Posted by: Sally Paxton
 
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MCC & Open Data

This is a guest blog by Sheila Herrling, Vice President of Policy and Evaluation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The…

Posted in Blog, International Aid Transparency Initiative, U.S. | Posted by: guest
 
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Pact publishes program data to IATI

Pact has become the first US Agency for International Development (USAID) implementing partner to elect to publish its international development…

Posted in News, NGOs, Technology for Transparency, U.S. | Posted by: Nicole Valentinuzzi
 

A call for action and the MDGs

In letters to the Guardian and New Dawn published on Sunday 12 and Monday 13 May respectively, a coalition of transparency organisations…

Posted in MDGs, Media, News | Posted by: Nicole Valentinuzzi
 

Obama’s open data Executive Order

U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday issued a new order which strengthens the Administration’s vision for open data.

The Executive Order sets a new default for government…

Posted in Data Visualisation, International Aid Transparency Initiative, News, Technology for Transparency, U.S. | Posted by: Nicole Valentinuzzi
 
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Transparency Camp & Chinese aid

Last week l  was in Washington D.C. to attend the Sunlight Foundation’s excellent Transparency Camp and present our plans for…

Posted in Blog, Technology for Transparency | Posted by: Rachel Rank
 
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It’s Time To Move From Rhetoric To Action On Aid Transparency

[Guest blog By Sam Worthington, president and CEO of InterAction. Also posted here.]

Today, transparency is thought to be as essential for effective…

Posted in Blog, International Aid Transparency Initiative | Posted by: guest
 

What do you want from data?

The World Bank has launched a study to better understand what users want from data, and they are asking for…

Posted in News, Technology for Transparency | Posted by: Nicole Valentinuzzi
 

Changes to the 2013 Aid Transparency Index

Earlier this month we started data collection for the 2013 Aid Transparency Index.

As the Index is our most important advocacy…

Posted in Blog, International Aid Transparency Initiative, Technology for Transparency | Posted by: Shreya Basu
 
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Glass Houses…INGOs and Walking the Walk on IATI

[Guest post by Tessie San Martin - Plan International USA CEO. Also posted here]

Over 40 governments, along with UN organizations and…

Posted in Blog, International Aid Transparency Initiative, Technology for Transparency | Posted by: guest