[Cross-posted on the Open Government Partnership site] The UK is a global leader in open data but the picture is still mixed across government activities and departments when it comes to international aid information. Although DFID accounts for the lion’s share of UK aid spending, there are other important players, notably the Department of Energy […]
Companies in the European Union will now have to disclose in future how much they pay foreign governments to secure oil, gas, coal and other raw materials. The new EU legislation, passed yesterday in Brussels, is aimed at curbing corruption between poor countries‘ governments and EU firms. The transparency measures are included in an overall […]
Guest post by Claudia Schwegmann, founder of the OpenAid project and board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. Germany has published its first set of aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this to happen. It is particularly good news as Germany was […]
The OECD has released its latest raft of aid figures today, revealing that aid continues to slips further as governments tighten budgets. The statistics show that development aid fell by 4% in real terms in 2012, following a 2% fall in 2011. The continuing financial crisis and euro zone turmoil has led several governments to restrict their […]
Guest blog by Ben Leo, ONE’s global policy director, and Lauren Pfeifer, ONE’s policy associate on the Transparency and Accountability Team. Original posted here. On President Obama’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that called for open, transparent government. The order is based on the principles that openness should be the default […]
Guest post by Paul O’Brien,Vice President for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam America and member of Publish What You Fund U.S. Advisory Committee. Originally posted here. Will Raj Shah commit USAID to joining the top 10% most transparent donors by the time he leaves his USAID Administrator post? He might do so, but looking at his […]
