Paris, le 18 septembre – Alors que François Hollande se rend au Mali pour l’investiture du nouveau président, la France a annoncé hier la mise en ligne d’un site internet de traçabilité de l’aide française au Mali. « Cette première en France », selon les mots même du Ministre du développement porteur de cette initiative, est certes une […]
Responsibility for running the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) recently changed to a new secretariat, after four years of DFID hosting. The department will be a hard act to follow as the UK Government has been a global leader on aid transparency, both in terms of releasing its own information but also its generous financial and administrative […]
Publish What You Fund is pleased to confirmed Fran Perrin, founder and CEO of the Indigo Trust, as the new Chair of their Board of Directors. The Indigo Trust is a UK based grant making foundation that funds technology-driven projects to bring about social change, largely in African countries. The Trust focuses mainly on innovation, […]
Mark Brough will be presenting at the Open Knowledge Conference on Monday 16 September. This blog is in advance of the event and cross-posted here. Aid, climate finance, extractives, government budgets, humanitarian aid, contracts and organisation identifiers: there are now a large range of initiatives to open up data on developmental resource flows. On 16th September at OKCon, we […]
The Directorate General for Enlargement and the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) this week became the joint second European Commission departments to publish to the International Aid Transparency Initiative. They join DG Development-EuropeAid (DEVCO) which has been publishing its aid information to IATI since 2011. EU collective publication to IATI now represents over 87% of EU ODA. DG Enlargement […]
Guest post by Michael Roberts, Groupsia On August 24-25, 2013, Citizen Attaché (an Engineers Without Borders supported venture) organized Canada’s first foreign aid data hackathon, a two-day event hosted at the HUB Ottawa’s co-working space. It attracted more than 40 participants from different Canadian cities. This included participants from Canada’s international development sector such as […]
