As Communications Manager here at Publish What You Fund, I often get calls from journalists, researchers, academics, and NGOs looking for information about a particular donor’s aid spending. It is the nature of the job – and a testament to the fact that we are the leading organisation in the field of aid transparency – […]
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 […]
Last week, Publish What You Fund attended the IATI TAG (Technical Advisory Group) meeting in Montreal in force. How did it go? Well, it was great. A fantastic community came together to work out what we need to do to improve aid data. It constantly surprises even us how much it has grown. There was strong […]
This article was first published on the Global Partnership’s Effective Development Co-operation Blog: http://devcooperation.org The world’s largest and most influential providers of aid reaffirmed their commitment to transparency this year. A high-level panel advising on the framework to follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) called for a “data revolution”, and G8 members specifically committed […]
