Guest post by Claudia Schwegmann, founder of the OpenAid project and board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. Germany has published its first set of aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this to happen. It is particularly good news as Germany was […]
Guest blog by Ben Leo, ONE’s global policy director, and Lauren Pfeifer, ONE’s policy associate on the Transparency and Accountability Team. Original posted here. On President Obama’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that called for open, transparent government. The order is based on the principles that openness should be the default […]
Guest post by Paul O’Brien,Vice President for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam America and member of Publish What You Fund U.S. Advisory Committee. Originally posted here. Will Raj Shah commit USAID to joining the top 10% most transparent donors by the time he leaves his USAID Administrator post? He might do so, but looking at his […]
We at Publish What You Fund don’t often get involved in debates about how much overseas aid the UK (or any other country) gives. We are concerned purely and simply with how transparent aid is – because no-one can be sure that it is effective and useful unless they can easily access information about it. […]
[originally posted on the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog] Publish What You Fund has undertaken some initial analysis of aid donors’ plans to publish to the IATI component of the agreed common standard for aid information. Here, Mark Brough explains the process they went through to take a series of Excel files, convert them into a format suitable for analysis, and come to […]
Yesterday, the OECD produced an XML file containing DAC members’ annual aid flows. The file is a conversion of 2010 and 2011 data from their Creditor Reporting System (CRS) into XML format (computer-readable “mark-up” language that allows programmers to extract and present data in a comparable and accessible way). By converting their aid data to XML, […]
