The Publish What You Fund office is buzzing with excitement over a flurry of new aid information in the last few weeks. Donors seem motivated to meet our July 31st data collection deadline for this year’s Aid Transparency Index. In the U.S. alone, 3 agencies have made important strides to meet their commitments to aid […]

[Joint blog by George Ingram & Sally Paxton – also posted here]  It is not often one gets excited over a dry, hard-to-understand government memorandum, but the newly released executive order, Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information, and its accompanying memorandum are grounds for applause. The open data and transparency community, both in Washington and internationally, […]