Last Saturday, the UK Government hosted a pre-G8 Tax, Trade & Transparency event in London. In the open data session, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude identified three corresponding challenges: to make all data open by default, to consider privacy but not to let it be an excuse, and to invest in the demand side and give more […]
Yesterday, the European Parliament formally adopted the updated EU open data Directive, requiring member states to make public sector information available in an easy to access and re-useable format. Public sector information refers to data produced, stored or collected by public sector bodies. Even though public sector information represents an enormous economic potential, studies conducted on […]
The World Food Programme today became the 150th organisation to publish detailed, transaction level open data on its activities and spending to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. “The UN World Food Programme is delighted to be a part of this initiative,” says Chris Kaye, director of Performance and Accountability Management for WFP in […]
The UK Department for International Development(DFID) has released a new beta platform that tracks this British aid and development money. The Development Tracker is completely open source, and uses data published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. The hope is that this platform will spur other NGOs and nations around the world to begin thinking more about […]
We congratulate the Center for Global Development for their latest effort on tracking foreign assistance through the U.S. Foreign Assistance Dashboard Tracker. The tracker will help inform a number of stakeholders on the progress of the Foreign Assistance Dashboard, including what agencies are uploading information (planning, obligation, spent, and implementation), when, and with what frequency. […]
Leading transparency and access to information campaigners including CAFOD, Global Witness, Integrity Action and Publish What You Fund, today welcomed a new UN report as driving progress towards enhanced citizen accountability around the world. The report by the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Post-2015 Development Agenda calls for a ‘data revolution’, proposes a goal to […]
