This is a joint post with Judith Randel, Executive Director of Development Initiatives, originally posted in Devex. Last Saturday, the United Kingdom hosted a G-8 session specifically on Trade, Tax and Transparency — billed as the ‘3Ts’ event. This event highlighted the importance of transparency and accountability for development, and Publish What You Fund attended to ensure that aid remains part […]
Yesterday, the European Parliament formally adopted the updated EU open data Directive, requiring member states to make public sector information available in an easy to access and re-useable format. Public sector information refers to data produced, stored or collected by public sector bodies. Even though public sector information represents an enormous economic potential, studies conducted on […]
The World Food Programme today became the 150th organisation to publish detailed, transaction level open data on its activities and spending to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. “The UN World Food Programme is delighted to be a part of this initiative,” says Chris Kaye, director of Performance and Accountability Management for WFP in […]
Guest post by ONE’s Alan Hudson, originally posted here In less than two weeks, on 17th and 18th June in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, world leaders will converge for the G8 Summit. The UK government has shown great leadership in setting a ground-breaking agenda on trade, tax and transparency, but the focus now needs to be on […]
The UK Department for International Development(DFID) has released a new beta platform that tracks this British aid and development money. The Development Tracker is completely open source, and uses data published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. The hope is that this platform will spur other NGOs and nations around the world to begin thinking more about […]
Donors from around the world met in Brussels last month to pledge funds for war-torn Mali, following a military coup that took place in March this year and later fighting between Tuareg and Islamist rebels. International donors agreed to provide Mali with over €3 billion in aid and the European Union pledged €1.35 billion, nearly […]
