Bill Anderson

Data Standards and Systems Analyst

Bill is an information systems specialist with a particular interest in country ownership and public sector capacity-building issues in Africa. He is a South African who worked for fifteen years as an intelligence analyst for the African National Congress and subsequently spent fifteen years in the UK software industry specialising in electronic data interchange. In 2005 he combined his two skill-sets to focus on the development of public information systems in Africa.

Bill Anderson

Bill says:

Transparency makes aid more effective and, consequently, redundant.

News & Views
From Bill

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Geocoding: an important milestone for aid transparency

Views Published: 12/08/2010

A substantial body of aid information has, for the first time, been geocoded. [more]

The Gapminder world map, comparing all countries and territories by income and health.

Challenges of the raw data revolution

Views Published: 25/05/2010

On the first anniversary of the very successful US data.gov initiative, bubble juggling Hans Rosling from the GapMinder Foundation was speaking at the World Bank on Friday arguing for what he calls a “mindset upgrade for a multi-polar world”. The recent leaps forward that have taken place in the publication of raw data by the American and British governments… [more]