Honduras made an important step towards greater transparency by launching their aid data platform last week. The Platform for Aid Management (PGC) will make information on foreign aid programmes and projects implemented in the country readily available and easy accessible to public officials, donors, academia, civil society and the general public. If all donors providing development assistance […]
[Guest post by Alan Hudson, ONE Director (Transparency & Accountability) – originally posted Feb 25th, 2013 on the ONE blog] As David Cameron’s speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos made clear, plans for the G8 Summit are taking shape. In addition to tackling the threat of extremism and terrorist violence, and addressing issues around agriculture, food […]
February 23 is Open Data Day, a global initiative that encourages citizens around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. The event comes as aidinfo, a leading transparency […]
On Tuesday, I participated in a live debate hosted by Google and the Guardian on data censorship, foreign aid and international development. The event was plugged as looking at the role data has to play in policy making and transparency around international development and foreign aid, including an opportunity to explore some datasets and “bring […]
Last weekend, Publish What You Fund and the Guardian hosted a ‘hack day’ as part of the Development Data Challenge. The event helped kick off hackdays around the world to interrogate – and explore the limits of – recently released aid and government spending data. Hacks and hackers, developers and development experts gathered at the Guardian offices […]
The Global Initiative on Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) website is now live, and will be officially launched at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Annual Meeting in Brasilia net month. GIFT is an international, multi-stakeholder network aiming to “advance and institutionalize global norms and significant, continuous improvements on fiscal transparency, engagement, and accountability in countries around the […]
