The United States’ largest spending aid agency, USAID, has published its plan for increasing openness and transparency. Although delayed by several months after the June 1st deadline, USAID’s Open Government Plan is an improvement on its previous ambitions. The report references USAID’s ongoing commitment to publish aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), and its goal […]
[Italiano segue] The Italian government unveiled its new open aid portal, OpenAid Italia, at the informal meeting of the EU development minsters in Florence last week. The site seeks to visualise Italy’s aid spending, and includes an interactive map with a country-by-country breakdown. Publish What You Fund and Action Aid Italy, which […]
The Road to 2015 Campaign: Open Data for Sustainable Development was launched today by Publish What You Fund at the UN Development Cooperation Forum in NYC. What is it about? The Road to 2015 campaign is about harnessing the power of open data for sustainable development. What do we want? We want donors who have committed to publishing aid […]
The Government of Japan this week published aid data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative for the first time. This exciting development sees data from both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) appearing in the IATI Registry. David Hall-Matthews, Director of Publish What You Fund, said: ‘We are very pleased to see Japan engaging with […]
The U.S. is on-course to meet many of its open government commitments, according to the latest civil society progress report on the Government’s National Action Plan. Specifically on foreign assistance transparency, the U.S. has made partial progress. In recent months, that progress seems to be accelerating. The report notes that “in order for the U.S. government to meet its […]
In the last few weeks the Foreign Assistance Dashboard added two new U.S. agencies to its list of publishers. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its aid information on May 28 and the State Department on June 1. Publish What You Fund welcomes this progress, but initial analysis raises some very basic quality issues. […]
