An article titled “A New Approach to Post War Reconstruction” by Fredric Galtung and Martin Tisne from Tiri, has been published in the Journal for Democracy.

One year on from Accra in 2008, when the International Aid Transparency Initiative goals and principles were decided, the IATI conference in the Hague proved to a productive and useful event.

IATI has posted the progress of the Iniative on its website, and outlined the plans for the year ahead.

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One of the thematic areas on which the DCF is focusing as part of its review of trends in development cooperation is the
strengthening of South-South cooperation.  To do so will require addressing three
gaps:
• An analytical gap – through a better understanding of the scope of South-South
Cooperation (SSC) and the provision on a voluntary basis of data and information on
SSC,
• An operational gap – through improved analysis on the support SSC requires – notably

Quoted from the G20 Leader’s summit in Pittsburgh:

Google has announced that it is now using public data from the World Bank’s API. Through this, Google can access 17 World Development Indicators. Google displays this data in interactive graphs that make it easy to compare stats for different countries. The timing of this announcement was likely planned to coincide with the news about Wolfram Alpha’s integration with Microsoft’s Bing.

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In the philanthropic community, there have been loud calls for greater organizational transparency, for organizations to be held accountable for how they spend their money and deliver their services. While this movement in philanthropy has been building steam for quite some time now, many parallels can be drawn between what is happening in the philanthropic world and what is happening in the business world. In the wake of the financial crisis, people are calling for a new economic system, a new brand of capitalism, a new breed of business.