Originally carried in Devex On Friday, a panel of world leaders appointed by the United Nations proposed a highly anticipated framework for stamping out extreme poverty by 2030. The recommendations are a dramatic shift from the Millennium Development Goals, which expire at the end of 2015. They call for a ‘data and information revolution’ […]
There were two updates to the U.S. Foreign Assistance Dashboard last week: obligation and expenditure data for USAID and MCC for FY 2013. While we continue to applaud the agencies making these crucial first steps in increasing the aid transparency, the quality of this information continues to be a concern. It is high level information […]
[Joint blog by George Ingram & Sally Paxton – also posted here] It is not often one gets excited over a dry, hard-to-understand government memorandum, but the newly released executive order, Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information, and its accompanying memorandum are grounds for applause. The open data and transparency community, both in Washington and internationally, […]
This is a guest blog by Sheila Herrling, Vice President of Policy and Evaluation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The original blog can be found here. On April 29th at the G8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) unveiled a new evaluation data catalog to house all the […]
Pact has become the first US Agency for International Development (USAID) implementing partner to elect to publish its international development program data in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Pact’s decision signifies, by example, a call to action for all organizations, especially international non-governmental organizations, to contribute to efforts that ensure foreign aid […]
U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday issued a new order which strengthens the Administration’s vision for open data. The Executive Order sets a new default for government information, requiring that all data is produced in a format that is “open and machine readable”. This encourages an open data approach in line with the framework of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), which U.S. […]
