The UK and French governments announced yesterday that they will join the international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a voluntary multi-stakeholder approach to greater transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries. The UK has been one of the EITI’s main supporters since its foundation, but until now has resisted joining as a candidate country. EITI candidate […]
Pact has become the first US Agency for International Development (USAID) implementing partner to elect to publish its international development program data in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Pact’s decision signifies, by example, a call to action for all organizations, especially international non-governmental organizations, to contribute to efforts that ensure foreign aid […]
In letters to the Guardian and New Dawn published on Sunday 12 and Monday 13 May respectively, a coalition of transparency organisations ask for transparency, accountability and participation to be prioritised for the 2015 and beyond agenda.
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 information, requiring that all data is produced in a format that is “open and machine readable”. This encourages an open data approach in line with the framework of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), which U.S. […]
The World Bank has launched a study to better understand what users want from data, and they are asking for your input. There has been a lot of discussion about what should be published as part of the drive for open financial data, but more can be done to identify what people want and need. Finding […]
Over 130 organisations are now publishing their data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), an open data platform that gives a timely, comprehensive and comparable picture of aid flows in order to improve accountability and impact. Germany is the latest country to begin publishing its data in line with the IATI common standard, with […]
