20th October is World Statistics Day. AidInfo have demonstrated the value of statistics in poverty alleviation with a blog which points to Publish What You Fund’s forthcoming Aid Transparency Assessment as an example of the essential and enlightening nature of data. Read below or on their new-look site.
Today, 19th October sees the release of the International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey 2010.
Marc Purcell, Executive Director of the Australian Council for International Development, urges greater transparency in Australian aid to Afghanistan on 16th October in The Australian. He highlights the importance of delineating aid and military spending and for improved aid transparency in AusAID.
On 13th October the UK aid transparency guarantee was examined by Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, with queries addressed to Andrew Mitchell MP, Secretary of State for International Development.
Aleem Walji considers the potential of an Open Data revolution on 8th October on the World Bank blog ‘Development Marketplace’.
On Thursday 7th October the World Bank launched the ‘Apps for Development’ competition. The competition aims to bring together the best ideas from tech developers and development practitioners to create innovative apps using World Bank data.
