Articulating demand for information is an absolutely critical part of ensuring that transparency and open data initiatives are shaped and driven by real users. Information about demand can tell us about what data people want, how they want it, what they might do with it, and the enabling factors that can enable them to use…
By Beatrice Mugambe – Executive Director of Development Research and Training Saturday (23rd February) is Open Data Day, a global initiative that encourages citizens around the world to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s governments. It’s an exciting time for Uganda because on Saturday we have jointly… [more]
On the right track? Will the High Level Panel measure up to expectations? Chairing a meeting can be difficult: overrunning timetables, absence of real-time information, inability to track commitments, lack of accountability. This is never more so than when the room is made up of world leading politicians, diplomats and economists. So when President Ellen… [more]
Last week Isabel Bucknall, aidinfo Programme and Policy Officer, attended Development Gateway’s (DG) latest Workshop in Dakar, Senegal on the theme of ‘Resources, Results and Voices’ with attendees of aid management teams from countries including Ethiopia, Haiti, Liberia, Malawi, DRC, Tanzania , Nepal, Burkina Faso, Togo and Kosovo – all countries who use Development Gateway’s… [more]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday launched a new online portal allowing open, comprehensive public access to data on the agency’s work in 177 countries and territories, as part of their commitment to reach full transparency by 2013. As scheduled, UNDP has published its data in the IATI standard. UNDP have registered 160 files with… [more]
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