Guest post by Till Bruckner, Transparify Over the past two decades, support by Western donors has led to an explosion in the number of think tanks in developing countries. Conventional wisdom has it that such think tanks strengthen democracy and improve the policy formulation process. They are thought to enrich public and political debates by […]
Guest post by Amy Bennett at OpenTheGovernment.org, to mark the beginning of Sunshine Week in Washington, D.C. For years US civil society organizations like mine and many of our coalition partners have been calling attention to the delays, mind-boggling technical barriers, and bureaucratic resistance to openness that contribute to making the US Freedom of Information Act […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance Is transparency a threat to the development status quo or an opportunity to break through the “dead aid” narrative? The problem with transparency is that it usually refers to the other guy. Politicians want governments to be transparent. Donors want beneficiaries to be transparent. Transparency is a threatening concept. […]
Guest post by Christian Villum, Community Manager for Open Government Data at the Open Knowledge Foundation. Originally posted here. With Open Data Day just around the corner – tomorrow, Saturday February 22, 2014, where over 100 events around the world will take place – it’s time to zoom out a bit and see what many of the […]
Guest post by John Adams, UK Department for International Development (DFID) The IATI TAG (that’s the International Aid Transparency Initiative Technical Advisory Group) met at the end of January in Montreal, kindly hosted by Canada’s Department for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). Around 120 members of the IATI community gathered for two days of […]
Guest blog by Heather Hanson, Senior Policy Advisor at the Millennium Challenge Corporation If you walked into the recent International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting in Montreal, you might be surprised by the crowd. Participation wasn’t limited to government representatives in suits from around the world (like me!). The TAG was a real […]
