How can data help end hunger?
Senior Advocacy Officer James Coe and partners at the OpenAg Funding Initiative created this presentation for the GODAN Summit, outlining the aims of the project.
New website for Friends of Publish What You Fund
Friends of Publish What You Fund have launched a new website. The U.S.-based non-profit organisation was established in May 2015. Its aim is to promote transparency among donors, users and implementers of international assistance in order to ensure effective spending, evaluation and accountability. Friends of Publish What You Fund grant to other organisations that further […]
Event: OpenAg funding at the GODAN Summit
The Initiative for Open Ag Funding is running two sessions at the upcoming GODAN Summit in New York on 15-16 September 2016. The OpenAg project is run in partnership with InterAction, Development Gateway, the Foundation Center, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Open Data Services. Find out more about the sessions and sign up using the […]
Korean Government’s Disclosure of ODA Information is Disappointing at Best
This is the official statement from the Korea Civil Society Forum on International Development Cooperation (KOFID) in reaction to the Government of Korea’s first publication to IATI. It was originally published in Korean on KOFID’s website on 12th August 2016. Korean Government’s Disclosure of ODA Information is Disappointing at Best Far behind to uphold the principles […]
Potholes and development goals: A dispatch from Kenya’s Silicon Savannah
This blog was originally posted by the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data’s on their website on 22nd August 2016. I first came to Kenya in 2000 as a student teacher. Hardly anyone had a mobile phone and outside Nairobi, there were just one TV and one radio station. We bought computers for the school […]
As local as possible and as international as necessary: Bringing an open development philosophy to humanitarian aid
This is a guest blog post by Roderick Besseling, Digital Strategist at Cordaid and IATI CSO Working Group Co-Chair With the Grand Bargain agreement and Charter 4 Change pledges made and signed earlier this year, it looks like the humanitarian sector is addressing some of its biggest challenges head-on. In particular, it is taking the necessary steps […]