The Netherlands Ministry of International Trade and Development Cooperation have launched a new budget webpage. It is first site of its kind to offer the potential to track national budget all the way to local delivery projects, and something worth shouting about. That said, it is also perhaps not the most intuitive site, so I asked Theo […]
The U.S. is on-course to meet many of its open government commitments, according to the latest civil society progress report on the Government’s National Action Plan. Specifically on foreign assistance transparency, the U.S. has made partial progress. In recent months, that progress seems to be accelerating. The report notes that “in order for the U.S. government to meet its […]
In the last few weeks the Foreign Assistance Dashboard added two new U.S. agencies to its list of publishers. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its aid information on May 28 and the State Department on June 1. Publish What You Fund welcomes this progress, but initial analysis raises some very basic quality issues. […]
Guest post by George Ingram, chair of our U.S. Advisory Committee & Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. There are two new agencies publishing information to the foreign assistance dashboard: the State Department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This is good news. But the question remains: Is more data always better, and for whom? Is […]
Guest post by Ruth Salmon, Research Assistant Joining the data collection team for the 2014 Aid Transparency Index (ATI) has been an eye opening experience. The thing that struck me most is how the volume of data available for an organisation does not necessarily correlate with usability. As Publish What You Fund has been saying for […]
Yesterday, the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network announced their new policy agenda, The Way Forward: A Reform Agenda for 2014 and Beyond. One of the pillars of the new policy is accountability and transparency. I was asked to discuss how the U.S. can best use IATI and the Foreign Assistance Dashboard to keep its transparency commitments. […]
