The UK Department for International Development(DFID) has released a new beta platform that tracks this British aid and development money. The Development Tracker is completely open source, and uses data published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. The hope is that this platform will spur other NGOs and nations around the world to begin thinking more about […]
Donors from around the world met in Brussels last month to pledge funds for war-torn Mali, following a military coup that took place in March this year and later fighting between Tuareg and Islamist rebels. International donors agreed to provide Mali with over €3 billion in aid and the European Union pledged €1.35 billion, nearly […]
Originally carried in Devex On Friday, a panel of world leaders appointed by the United Nations proposed a highly anticipated framework for stamping out extreme poverty by 2030. The recommendations are a dramatic shift from the Millennium Development Goals, which expire at the end of 2015. They call for a ‘data and information revolution’ […]
This is a guest blog by Sheila Herrling, Vice President of Policy and Evaluation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The original blog can be found here. On April 29th at the G8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) unveiled a new evaluation data catalog to house all the […]
Pact has become the first US Agency for International Development (USAID) implementing partner to elect to publish its international development program data in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Pact’s decision signifies, by example, a call to action for all organizations, especially international non-governmental organizations, to contribute to efforts that ensure foreign aid […]
U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday issued a new order which strengthens the Administration’s vision for open data. The Executive Order sets a new default for government information, requiring that all data is produced in a format that is “open and machine readable”. This encourages an open data approach in line with the framework of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), which U.S. […]
