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.
Development aid to Africa can boost domestic demand on the continent and help ween the global economy from over-reliance on personal consumption in the United States, a senior World Bank official said on Thursday. Click here to access full article.
“Technical and financial partners are supporting different projects that are totally disconnected from one another and from the agriculture policy framework set up by the government,” Jean-Denis Crola, author of the report ‘Aid to Agriculture: from promises to reality on the ground’, told IRIN. To read full article click here.
Publish What You Fund has endorsed MFAN’s Presidential Study Directive message to the White House.
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An engaged public increases aid effectiveness, experts told an EU conference yesterday.
A group of international communications and governance experts told european leaders how public disclosure and public engagement can transform development into social change.
The panel of transparency activists explained how effective communication can strengthen transparency and accountability in donor-finance programmes.
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