Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance Is transparency a brute force technology exercise? Should IATI support require document screen scraping and financial management software data massaging? International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) classifications, designed to enable aid effectiveness across multiple projects, provide compelling internal information for decision making. Many of us involved in the aid and […]
Guest post by Jennifer Jentfer, Oxfam America – originally published here. “A lack of transparency creates one of the most dangerous mentalities among humans, like racism or regionalism,” says Faten Belguith, an IREX Community Solutions Program Fellow and co-founder of the Tunisian Network of Associations for Citizenship and Development (La Toile des Associations pour le Civisme et le […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance – originally posted here. A recent analysis by Publish What You Fund found that larger donors tend to have better aid transparency than smaller donors. This analysis was based on the aid commitment and the quality of transparency information published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. This generated a […]
Guest post by E sol Cho, ODA Watch On November 15th 2013, ODA Watch held a policy forum on the Korean aid transparency, with an aim to raise public awareness of the issue and build a consensus that more is needed to make aid transparent. The event attracted more than 40 participants from all national […]
Guest post by Pernilla Näsfors, Open Aid Partnership & World Bank On October 25, our team together with Publish What You Fund co-hosted a series of lightning talks as part of Global Transparency Week in an effort to bring together leading transparency and development organizations from around the globe to connect and share their experiences […]
Guest post by Kersti Wissenbach, Open Knowledge Foundation – originally posted here. We are moving beyond the hype of “open development”. At OKCON and online, questions about what “open development” is, how it affects change and what ethical issues arise when talking about open in development have continued to come up. At the Open Development Camp (ODC13), the […]
