Theme: Technology

Technology

Information technology plays a central role in poverty reduction. It can:

  • empower individuals;
  • give communities a voice;
  • make organisations more responsive;
  • hold governments to account.

We believe that technology can make aid work better.

We work with organisations using technology to enable aid transparency. While supporting innovation in the sector, we evaluate and promote the most relevant initiatives. We help to shape the aid transparency community and engage those already involved with open data, open government and technology for development.

We’re especially interested in the issues of:

  • aid traceability;
  • making aid information more accessible;
  • geocoding aid data;
  • creating feedback loops for aid beneficiaries;
  • the use of crowdsourcing techniques.

If you’ve got an interest in any of the above, this dashboard brings together our most relevant content.

Key Contact:

Simon Parrish
Technology Solutions Advisor
Simon Parrish

Simon works chiefly on the aidinfo programme, advising on data standards and the application of technology. He is currently providing support to the Technical Advisory Group of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), leading on the data formats, technical architecture and systems workstream. This will support existing and new information providers in assessing impact and…

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Latest Reports

Technical Innovations Paper

Published: 08/09/2010

This paper considers the changing relationship between institutions and citizens. It contributes this to the rise of popular technology… ordinary people can now create, contribute to and access information resources easily. [more]

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