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
Programme Leader
Simon Parrish

Simon leads the aidinfo programme, having previously worked for aidinfo for a number of years advising on data standards and the application of technology. He oversees the day to day management of the programme, ensuring that it’s on track to meet its targets in addition to devising and implementing aidinfo’s next phase of strategy. Additionally,…

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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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