Last weekend, Publish What You Fund and the Guardian hosted a ‘hack day’ as part of the Development Data Challenge. The event helped kick off hackdays around the world to interrogate – and explore the limits of – recently released aid and government spending data. Hacks and hackers, developers and development experts gathered at the Guardian offices […]
Including progress on aid transparency within Canada’s Open Government Partnership Action Plan
The Inter-American Development Bank, the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, released a detailed plan of how it intends to meet the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard for aid publication. As part of their Busan commitment to transparency and accountability, IDB will make public activity level info on a quarterly […]
The World Bank praised the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) as the standard for international aid data collection and publication at the Second International Open Government Data Conference. Managing Director Caroline Anstey said in a speech that data formats, like the one used by the IATI, are the only way to ensure that data is fully usable by others. She […]
Publish What You Fund today welcomed the news that a common, open standard for publishing aid information has now been agreed by the OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness. The final meeting of the group, which includes donors, recipients and civil society, aimed to ensure that the international commitments made last year at Busan were […]
The UK Government announced it will release new data about public services – including where British aid money is spent – on the official data website data.gov.uk. Commenting on the Department for International Development (DfID) aid data, Publish What You Fund’s David Hall-Matthews, said: “DfID continues to take a lead on aid transparency – not only in […]
