I’m leaving Publish What You Fund in a few days after an exhilarating two and a half years. Over that period, I’ve been fortunate to work with a superb team but also with a diverse community in and around international development: government budget officials, civil society activists, politicians, academics, IT systems managers, open data experts, […]
Guest post by E sol Cho, ODA Watch On November 15th 2013, ODA Watch held a policy forum on the Korean aid transparency, with an aim to raise public awareness of the issue and build a consensus that more is needed to make aid transparent. The event attracted more than 40 participants from all national […]
Guest post by Pernilla Näsfors, Open Aid Partnership & World Bank On October 25, our team together with Publish What You Fund co-hosted a series of lightning talks as part of Global Transparency Week in an effort to bring together leading transparency and development organizations from around the globe to connect and share their experiences […]
Guest post by Kersti Wissenbach, Open Knowledge Foundation – originally posted here. We are moving beyond the hype of “open development”. At OKCON and online, questions about what “open development” is, how it affects change and what ethical issues arise when talking about open in development have continued to come up. At the Open Development Camp (ODC13), the […]
In the aftermath of the devastating Typhoon Yolanda on 8th November, there have been calls to ensure that aid is effectively coordinated, learning lessons from the way humanitarian relief and reconstruction efforts were delivered following the Haiti earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Donors are already publishing large amounts of information about their traditional […]
This week the European Commission is hosting its annual European Development Days in Brussels on 26-27 November. The forum aims to bring together development stakeholders from Europe and around the world to promote greater effectiveness in development cooperation efforts – this year’s focus is on the Post-2015 agenda. 2013 has been a ground breaking year […]
