A month or so ago, the IATI Dashboard looked a bit worse for wear: It had a big yellow banner announcing “technical issues”, and the footer text showed the data hadn’t been refreshed in 2 months. That’s problematic, because the Dashboard provides important statistics, charts and metrics relating to IATI data in the Registry. For […]
Almost twelve months ago I wrote about how people could use IATI organisation file data to find past, present and future donor budgets, alongside a library of linked strategic documents that help put the data in context. The problem? Despite the data being published by a significant number of major donors, there is no way […]
As we have outlined in the first blog post of the series on publishing practices, getting the basics right is essential to improve both the user-friendliness and the usefulness of IATI data, removing barriers to data use, including by non-experts. Aid transparency is more than just putting user-friendly data out there. What really matters is […]
It has only been a month since we released the 2018 Aid Transparency Index, but we’ve been excited to see lively discussion about the results. As we have emphasised before, the Index process is an interactive one and this does not stop with the publication of the report. We consider the Index to also be […]
“Sampling is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” This is how the team here at Publish What You Fund felt when the data collection period for our 2018 Aid Transparency Index ended on the 9th of March. It was again time to put on our data user hats and […]
On Thursday, John Adams (IATI TAG chair) asked IATI discuss: What’s the current recommended way to download the entire IATI dataset in XML? Separate files are OK. By Friday, I’d made a Minimum Viable Product: By Monday, it looked a bit more polished: You can view the site here. Wait, what? But… Why? IATI Data […]
