The much anticipated AidData database was launched yesterday at a conference in Oxford. The project will be the largest of its kind, tracking donor aid flows and spotlighting funds from 36 under-reported countries, including Chile, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Publish What You Fund welcomes the Public Online Information Act which has been introduced to the House of Representatives in the U.S. by Representative Israel of New York 2nd District. This act requires executive branch agencies to publish all information online in a timely manner and accessible format.
Owen Barder, Director of the AidInfo project at Development Initiatives, speaks to the Center for Global Development about why aid transparency matters. The interview does an excellent job in explaining why aid transparency is needed, how it can be implemented, and what impacts it might have.
‘Embracing Government 2.0: Leading transformative change in the public sector’ is the recently published white paper co-authored by Doug Hadden at FreeBalance and Martha Batorski at Grant Thornton. The paper explores the skills and mindsets governments need to employ to make changes, such as increasing transparency with use of the emerging environment and technologies of open information.
‘An Eye on Aid’, published today in American Prospect magazine by Justin Charity relays an conversation with Karin Christiansen which gets to the root of why Publish What You Fund exists.
