Marc Purcell, Executive Director of the Australian Council for International Development, urges greater transparency in Australian aid to Afghanistan on 16th October in The Australian. He highlights the importance of delineating aid and military spending and for improved aid transparency in AusAID.
On 13th October the UK aid transparency guarantee was examined by Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, with queries addressed to Andrew Mitchell MP, Secretary of State for International Development.
Aleem Walji considers the potential of an Open Data revolution on 8th October on the World Bank blog ‘Development Marketplace’.
On Thursday 7th October the World Bank launched the ‘Apps for Development’ competition. The competition aims to bring together the best ideas from tech developers and development practitioners to create innovative apps using World Bank data.
Dennis Whittle, Founder and CEO of Global Giving, writes in the Huffington Post on Thursday 7th October that ‘IATI has made much more progress than I imagined possible’ after leaving last week’s conference ‘encouraged by the possibilities and by the people working on it.’
Yesterday, Tuesday 5th October, saw the Center for Global Development (CGD), in cooperation with the Brookings Institution, release its “Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment” (QuODA) report.
