UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon last week announced a new independent expert advisory group on the data revolution. As an organisation that has been vocal in its support of the data revolution from the start, Publish What You Fund very much welcomes this initiative. It is great to see the UN paying attention to the […]
After months of discussion – and at times, confusion – we are finally able to see the light at the end of the post-2015 development agenda tunnel. This comes in the form of two much anticipated publications: the outcome of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, and the report of the Intergovernmental Expert […]
The IATI Annual Report, which looks at progress made by donors in publishing their aid data to the open data standard for aid information, was published yesterday. The highlight for me is that IATI is gaining momentum, with more than 109 new organisations publishing data in 2013 – almost doubling the total number of publishers by the […]
It is almost two months since I started working at Publish What You Fund. The intensity of my induction has been proportionate to the level of expertise the organisation has accumulated since it was founded – and that is significant! My first weeks started with our Aid Transparency Index (ATI) being cited multiple times by U.S. pundits […]
