Publish What You Fund welcomes the zero draft of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) published on 16 of March, 2015. We believe that transparency and open data have the potential to address the objectives of the FfD3 process by ensuring that all development stakeholders gain a comprehensive picture of resources for […]
Publish What You Fund congratulates InterAction on their first publication to International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). This is an important step forward for the transparency of U.S. NGOs and represents many years of hard work from our colleagues. InterAction joins over 300 other organizations already publishing to IATI including Plan USA and Publish What You Fund. As […]
We welcome the leadership shown by the EIB on opening up its development activities by committing to implement IATI in its new disclosure policy. We are disappointed, however, that the policy does not go further by including exceptions on internal documents and investigations. We hope that the EIB will review this decision and work closely […]
Last October, I went to Sierra Leone to work on Ebola. I helped set up a National Situation Room to compile data on the Ebola response, and use that data to drive decision-making. With its big projector screens and maps on the wall, it looked a bit like Mission Control. The Government of Sierra Leone […]
It’s six months since we launched the 2014 Aid Transparency Index. We’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of donors that have been in touch to find out how they can improve the quality of the information they publish (and of course move a few notches up the ranking in doing so!). As you can […]
This is a guest blog by Pavrita Rana, a Coordinator at Open Nepal. The full, original version of this blog can be found on Open Nepal’s website here. Open Data Day is celebrated internationally every year, where people in different cities across the world come together to liberate data, write applications, create visualizations, and hack […]
