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New report on sharing aid information is now open for comments

Posted Mon, 21/09/2009 - 17:07 by simon
We’re pleased to announce the publication of a new report, Unlocking the potential of aid information. The report, by the Open Knowledge Foundation and aidinfo, looks at how to make information related to international development (i) legally open, (ii) technically open and (iii) easy to find. It aims to inform the development of a IATI platform for publishing and sharing aid information.

Open development barcamp

Posted Sat, 11/07/2009 - 21:30 by simon
the first open development barcamp was held in Washington DC on Friday and, by all accounts, was a great success. It was certainly very inspiring to see around 100 people discussing transparency and how to improve access to aid information, data on outcomes, knowledge, and tools.

Owen Barder of aidinfo set the scene nicely with some opening remarks about how and why the information revolution can play a big role in the elimination global poverty. See his notes here

check out the website to get a flavour from the forum and twitter conversations

Open development barcamp sold out

Posted Sun, 28/06/2009 - 18:23 by simon
"Open development camp: data and collaboration" has now sold out. This is a barcamp-style event held on 10th July in Washington DC organised by aidinfo, Development Gateway Foundation, World Bank, Forum One and Global Development Commons aiming to bring together a group of people to discuss transparency and accessibility of development information. As it turns out a lot of people want to discuss this topic - over 100 that have signed up in fact!

Bono fans to promote aid transparency (maybe)

Posted Wed, 29/04/2009 - 16:53 by simon

Bill Easterly encourages all Bono fans to agitate on behalf of Publish What You Fund

http://blogs.nyu.edu/fas/dri/aidwatch/2009/04/bono_and_foreigner.html

PWYF are close partners of aidinfo and are campaigning for aid transparency with four main principles:

Will Obama promote openness?

Posted Wed, 21/01/2009 - 18:16 by simon

The folks at Open Knowledge Foundation have outlined a list of things Barack Obama can do to promote openness which chime very nicely with the aidinfo objectives.

1.    Open government data.
2.    Open access to publicly funded research
3.    Publish public information in way which makes it easy to re-use.
4.    Legal and licensing clarity
5.    Make it open by default

QWIDS - A new user interface for DAC International Development Statistics

Posted Fri, 12/12/2008 - 13:07 by simon

This week OECD DAC had released a new user interface for its data statistics database. The new interface, called QWIDS (Query Wizard for International Development Statistics), is a huge improvement and a big step forward for accessibility of aid information.   

The X Factor - Global Development Commons' Development 2.0 challenge

Posted Fri, 07/11/2008 - 15:55 by simon
USAID have launched a competition to find the best ideas for using mobile technology for development impact, The USAID Development 2.0 Challenge.
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