This week we have a guest blog from the author David Shaman. David wrote “The World Bank Unveiled: Inside the Revolutionary Struggle for Transparency“, an insider’s account of how the world’s largest international financial institution makes decisions. David was Communications Manager of the Bank’s Development Economics Research Group on the Environment from 1993 to 2000,…
It’s time for the third and final segment in our three-part guest blog series from the author David Shaman. You can read the first two parts of this series here and here. David is the author of “The World Bank Unveiled: Inside the Revolutionary Struggle for Transparency“, an insider’s account of how the world’s largest… [more]
This week sees the first in a three-part guest blog series from David Shaman, we will run part two of this series at the same time next week. David is the author of “The World Bank Unveiled: Inside the Revolutionary Struggle for Transparency“, an insider’s account of how the world’s largest international financial institution makes… [more]
We’re still in high spirits from Monday’s news that the World Bank has become the third donor to publish their data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. This release is big news for IATI; the World Bank is the first multi-lateral agency to publish to the standard. It means that the Bank’s data… [more]
Aid organisations argue against the publication of open data by reasoning that there’s no real demand for it – “no-one’s interested/no-one will use it”. In the past few months, we’ve heard the same argument deployed by both official donors and NGOs who remain sceptical about the potential benefits of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)…. [more]
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