Yesterday Owen Barder, Director for Europe at the Center for Global Development, expressed concern regarding the openness of the Google-World Bank mapping project, pointing out that data used to create the maps should be available for anyone to access and use. Last month in the New York Times, Caroline Anstey, Managing Director at the World Bank, […]
OpenAid, a fundamental pillar of Sweden’s recent aid reforms, has been launched today. The site puts aid transparency into action, demonstrating what is possible when governments publish their aid information. The OpenAid site illustrates how raw data on aid activities can be turned into accessible and usable visualisation, allowing the public to see how their […]
Today in DC, the US government launched the new Foreign Assistance Dashboard. This new website, and particularly the data behind it, is an important first step to increase the timeliness, comparability and comprehensiveness of information on American foreign assistance. After a series of consultations with agencies, NGOs and the development community, the team at ‘F’ […]
Publish What You Fund has developed an Aid Transparency Assessment. This is the first global assessment for aid transparency and we plan to produce more in the future.
Yesterday, Tuesday 5th October, saw the Center for Global Development (CGD), in cooperation with the Brookings Institution, release its “Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment” (QuODA) report.
It’s Right to Know Day! To mark this day which raises awareness of the right of access to information, we have been working with DFID and Open Knowledge Foundation to produce a UK aid data visualisation.
