Friday, April 23, 2010 - 18:05
The UN and the Haitian Government have launched an online tool for tracking aid pledged in response to the Haiti earthquake.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 15:21
The World Bank has created a new website, releasing a huge amount of statistics and data on development, which you can access for free.
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 09:12
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 16:48
Better statistics – social entrepreneurs, capitalists, civil society keen to hold governments to account and hard pressed governments themselves, they all need and would benefit from timely and accurate data.....
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 09:44
Here is Mosquito Map - a geospatially referenced clearinghouse for mosquito species collection records and distribution models.
MosquitoMap is useful for:
* informing decisions about where mosquito collection efforts should be directed
* identifying areas relevant to the study of mosquito biogeography, evolution and biodiversity
* allow predictions about the potential spread of exotic mosquito introductions
* allow predictions about the potential effects of global warming on mosquito distributions
* allow insig
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 18:28
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 11:50
It seems very strange today, but it was not long ago that there were Consultative Group meetings in Paris about aid to developing countries to which the developing countries themselves were not invited.
In the near future, it will seem just as strange that donor countries could think of giving aid to developing countries without publishing detailed real time information about how much they are giving, to whom, and what for.
Monday, January 4, 2010 - 13:14