This blog post originally appeared on BlogActiv.eu. If – as the UK Prime Minister David Cameron is finding out – a week is a long time in politics, then five years can appear a lifetime when you don’t have the information you need. The European landscape has changed significantly over this period. Who could have […]
On 17th January, the High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing released its report Too important to fail – addressing the humanitarian financing gap in the lead up to the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) on 23-24 May in Istanbul. The panel makes the strongest call yet for a commitment from aid organisations and donors to increase the transparency […]
We are pleased to announce that Publish What You Fund is joining a new coalition aimed at joining up data standards. The Joined Up Data Alliance brings together experts in development cooperation, humanitarian relief, public contracting and natural resource governance to collaborate on the development and use of data standards. Rupert Simons, CEO of Publish […]
A few weeks ago, in the midst of all the Aid Transparency Index excitement, I participated in an event hosted by the Web Foundation’s Open Data Research Network, intended to dig deeper into the opportunities and challenges presented by the open data revolution. With presentations from myself, Jason Maglaughlin of CIVICUS, and Cecillia Makonyola of Restless Development, […]
For many of us working with the EU, September certainly feels like going “back to school” following an extended summer period when most EU institutions close down. But new European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker has been hard at work over the holidays putting together his “dream team” of European Commissioners, which he announced two weeks […]
