This week’s guest blog is by Davis Adieno, Capacity Development Manager at Development Initiatives Nairobi office. The Kenya Open Data Portal was launched by President Mwai Kibaki in July 2011, making Kenya the second country in Africa, after Morocco, to launch an open data portal and the first in sub-Saharan Africa. Those who crafted it wanted to see steps taken to…
This week we have a guest blog from Paul Clough, head of International Finance at Oxfam GB. Oxfam have just published their second wave of data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Paul explains the details of this data and why transparency is important to Oxfam GB. Back in November of 2011 ahead of… [more]
Congratulations to the 18 organisations who published their spending information on Friday 1st June 2012 to an internationally agreed common standard, the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The move comes as part of the requirements that their funder, the Department for International Development (DFID), has placed on many of its fundees to become more open… [more]
It’s time for the second segment in our three-part guest blog series from the author David Shaman. We will run the last blog in this series at the same time next week. You can read the first blog that we published last week here. David is the author of “The World Bank Unveiled: Inside the… [more]
Kenyan citizens are increasingly calling for access to clear and reliable information on public spending, including expenditure that is funded from international aid. Our latest collection of case studies and videos from Kenya attempts to increase our understanding of the issues facing citizens and civil society organisations (CSOs) who wish to access information about public spending,… [more]
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