The Open Government Partnership Summit was held in London last week. It brought together participants from all around the world – government officials to civil society organisations – all of which share a common interest in increased accountability and transparency. Publish What You Fund was out in force, and we used the summit as an […]
Opening up aid flows: progress with implementing a common information standard Please join us at the OGP Summit for a discussion on opening up aid flows, with contributions from the Sunlight Foundation, DFID, BudgIT and UNOPS. The Panel Ellen Miller, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation – facilitator David Hall-Matthews, Managing Director, Publish What You Fund […]
For immediate release: Wednesday 23 October A series of high-profile events to highlight the importance of transparency for development, innovation, equitable growth, and poverty reduction will begin tomorrow. The first ever Global Transparency Week (October 24 – November 1) is taking place at a time when public interest in government and corporate transparency has never been higher. Hosted […]
Publish What You Fund is launching the 2013 Aid Transparency Index (ATI) on October 24, 2013. The Index is the only global measure of the state of aid transparency in the world’s leading aid organizations. Co-hosted with The Brookings Institution and Oxfam America, the event will include the perspective of a leading Southern voice, […]
Last Saturday, the UK Government hosted a pre-G8 Tax, Trade & Transparency event in London. In the open data session, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude identified three corresponding challenges: to make all data open by default, to consider privacy but not to let it be an excuse, and to invest in the demand side and give more […]
Guest blog by Claire Schouten, Integrity Action Last week saw the third meeting of the UN high-level panel (HLP), which has until May to come up with a vision to shape the post-2015 development agenda. The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015, and many of those goals have not been met as we near the […]
