Letter to Canada – Minister Clement
Including progress on aid transparency within Canada’s Open Government Partnership Action Plan
How open is the UK’s open data strategy?
All UK Government departments produced an open data strategy in June – alongside the Cabinet Office’s Open Data White Paper – pledging themselves to big releases of datasets and innovative open data approaches over the next two years. Although they followed a template, the departments’ strategies vary dramatically in scope, detail and ambition. This reflects how far different […]
IDB plans for IATI implementation
The Inter-American Development Bank, the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, released a detailed plan of how it intends to meet the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard for aid publication. As part of their Busan commitment to transparency and accountability, IDB will make public activity level info on a quarterly […]
World Bank promotes IATI as standard for aid data
The World Bank praised the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) as the standard for international aid data collection and publication at the Second International Open Government Data Conference. Managing Director Caroline Anstey said in a speech that data formats, like the one used by the IATI, are the only way to ensure that data is fully usable by others. She […]
New common, open standard for aid agreed
Publish What You Fund today welcomed the news that a common, open standard for publishing aid information has now been agreed by the OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness. The final meeting of the group, which includes donors, recipients and civil society, aimed to ensure that the international commitments made last year at Busan were […]
New UK Government data release
The UK Government announced it will release new data about public services – including where British aid money is spent – on the official data website data.gov.uk. Commenting on the Department for International Development (DfID) aid data, Publish What You Fund’s David Hall-Matthews, said: “DfID continues to take a lead on aid transparency – not only in […]