Originally carried in Devex On Friday, a panel of world leaders appointed by the United Nations proposed a highly anticipated framework for stamping out extreme poverty by 2030. The recommendations are a dramatic shift from the Millennium Development Goals, which expire at the end of 2015. They call for a ‘data and information revolution’ […]
Leading transparency and access to information campaigners including CAFOD, Global Witness, Integrity Action and Publish What You Fund, today welcomed a new UN report as driving progress towards enhanced citizen accountability around the world. The report by the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Post-2015 Development Agenda calls for a ‘data revolution’, proposes a goal to […]
There were two updates to the U.S. Foreign Assistance Dashboard last week: obligation and expenditure data for USAID and MCC for FY 2013. While we continue to applaud the agencies making these crucial first steps in increasing the aid transparency, the quality of this information continues to be a concern. It is high level information […]
The UK and French governments announced yesterday that they will join the international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a voluntary multi-stakeholder approach to greater transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries. The UK has been one of the EITI’s main supporters since its foundation, but until now has resisted joining as a candidate country. EITI candidate […]
[Joint blog by George Ingram & Sally Paxton – also posted here] It is not often one gets excited over a dry, hard-to-understand government memorandum, but the newly released executive order, Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information, and its accompanying memorandum are grounds for applause. The open data and transparency community, both in Washington and internationally, […]
This is a guest blog by Sheila Herrling, Vice President of Policy and Evaluation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The original blog can be found here. On April 29th at the G8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) unveiled a new evaluation data catalog to house all the […]
