Last week, I spoke at the USAID Frontiers Forum, explaining how aid transparency can help eradicate poverty by 2030. Right after me, in another (albeit larger) room, Secretary Kerry told a packed audience about the importance of transparency and open data. As far as we at Publish What You Fund are concerned, the more people […]
Yesterday, the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network announced their new policy agenda, The Way Forward: A Reform Agenda for 2014 and Beyond. One of the pillars of the new policy is accountability and transparency. I was asked to discuss how the U.S. can best use IATI and the Foreign Assistance Dashboard to keep its transparency commitments. […]
Its mid-January – past the time to make (and break!) any new year’s resolutions, but still time to reflect on last year and assess the year ahead. One thing is crystal clear: 2014 is a critical year for the U.S. if it is to meet its commitments on aid transparency. In 2013, the Millennium Challenge […]
It’s been one and a half years since I started my role as U.S. Representative with Publish What You Fund. Since the early days, my primary focus has been advocating for a robust implementation by the U.S. on the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), the common standard for reporting foreign assistance. An important part of […]
The Publish What You Fund office is buzzing with excitement over a flurry of new aid information in the last few weeks. Donors seem motivated to meet our July 31st data collection deadline for this year’s Aid Transparency Index. In the U.S. alone, 3 agencies have made important strides to meet their commitments to aid […]
[Joint blog by George Ingram & Sally Paxton – also posted here] It is not often one gets excited over a dry, hard-to-understand government memorandum, but the newly released executive order, Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information, and its accompanying memorandum are grounds for applause. The open data and transparency community, both in Washington and internationally, […]
