It’s the second week of 2014, we are all back at work, and it already seems like Christmas was a distant memory. But that doesn’t mean it’s too late to think about what the long year stretching out before us might have in store. Here are my three aid transparency predictions for 2014: France will […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance – originally posted here. A recent analysis by Publish What You Fund found that larger donors tend to have better aid transparency than smaller donors. This analysis was based on the aid commitment and the quality of transparency information published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. This generated a […]
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 […]
