U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday issued a new order which strengthens the Administration’s vision for open data. The Executive Order sets a new default for government information, requiring that all data is produced in a format that is “open and machine readable”. This encourages an open data approach in line with the framework of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), which U.S. […]
Last week l was in Washington D.C. to attend the Sunlight Foundation’s excellent Transparency Camp and present our plans for the 2013 Index. I also had a chance to meet with some of our campaign partners, mainly to put faces to email addresses but also to share notes on our various activities in the U.S. […]
[Guest blog By Sam Worthington, president and CEO of InterAction. Also posted here.] Today, transparency is thought to be as essential for effective development as gender equality or local ownership. Without transparency, real accountability is impossible. Without accountability, it is difficult to achieve meaningful, lasting results. At least rhetorically, both donors and civil societyhave recognized this, identifying transparency as a […]
The World Bank has launched a study to better understand what users want from data, and they are asking for your input. There has been a lot of discussion about what should be published as part of the drive for open financial data, but more can be done to identify what people want and need. Finding […]
Earlier this month we started data collection for the 2013 Aid Transparency Index. As the Index is our most important advocacy tool, it needs to evolve and keep up with the changes to the wider transparency and aid effectiveness environment. So, this year we are focusing not only on the availability of aid information, but […]
[Guest post by Tessie San Martin – Plan International USA CEO. Also posted here] Over 40 governments, along with UN organizations and the World Bank, have committed to a common standard and time schedule for publishing aid information under the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). There are high expectations for this initiative. The ultimate objective is to increase the […]
