Guest post by Rodney Bent (see bio at end), originally posted on Sunlight Foundation blog. Over the past 18 years, the American public told pollsters they believe the U.S. government spends way too much on foreign aid, reckoning that something like a fifth or a quarter of the federal budget is used for that purpose. […]
[Cross-posted on the Open Government Partnership site] The UK is a global leader in open data but the picture is still mixed across government activities and departments when it comes to international aid information. Although DFID accounts for the lion’s share of UK aid spending, there are other important players, notably the Department of Energy […]
Guest post by Claudia Schwegmann, founder of the OpenAid project and board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. Germany has published its first set of aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this to happen. It is particularly good news as Germany was […]
Guest blog by Ben Leo, ONE’s global policy director, and Lauren Pfeifer, ONE’s policy associate on the Transparency and Accountability Team. Original posted here. On President Obama’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that called for open, transparent government. The order is based on the principles that openness should be the default […]
Guest post by Paul O’Brien,Vice President for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam America and member of Publish What You Fund U.S. Advisory Committee. Originally posted here. Will Raj Shah commit USAID to joining the top 10% most transparent donors by the time he leaves his USAID Administrator post? He might do so, but looking at his […]
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has begun publishing to the International Aid Transparency Initiative for the first time, as of last week. IDB is a leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. The IDB became a signatory of IATI at the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in November 2011, and […]
