Guest post by Christian Villum, Community Manager for Open Government Data at the Open Knowledge Foundation. Originally posted here. With Open Data Day just around the corner – tomorrow, Saturday February 22, 2014, where over 100 events around the world will take place – it’s time to zoom out a bit and see what many of the […]
Guest post by John Adams, UK Department for International Development (DFID) The IATI TAG (that’s the International Aid Transparency Initiative Technical Advisory Group) met at the end of January in Montreal, kindly hosted by Canada’s Department for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). Around 120 members of the IATI community gathered for two days of […]
Guest blog by Heather Hanson, Senior Policy Advisor at the Millennium Challenge Corporation If you walked into the recent International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting in Montreal, you might be surprised by the crowd. Participation wasn’t limited to government representatives in suits from around the world (like me!). The TAG was a real […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance Is transparency a brute force technology exercise? Should IATI support require document screen scraping and financial management software data massaging? International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) classifications, designed to enable aid effectiveness across multiple projects, provide compelling internal information for decision making. Many of us involved in the aid and […]
Guest post by Jennifer Jentfer, Oxfam America – originally published here. “A lack of transparency creates one of the most dangerous mentalities among humans, like racism or regionalism,” says Faten Belguith, an IREX Community Solutions Program Fellow and co-founder of the Tunisian Network of Associations for Citizenship and Development (La Toile des Associations pour le Civisme et le […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance – originally posted here. A recent analysis by Publish What You Fund found that larger donors tend to have better aid transparency than smaller donors. This analysis was based on the aid commitment and the quality of transparency information published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. This generated a […]
