Open data Archives

Is it Time for the Aid Transparency Community to Re-think its Approach?

By Guest | May 29, 2019 | Blog

In this guest blog, Michael Roberts of Giveth.io reflects on the development of open data standards, the differing technology and approaches that have been adopted and what we can learn from this. He argues that initiatives like IATI must continue to focus on addressing internal organisational challenges on governance and capacity. He also contends that we should be open to new forms of technology integrations and not be locked into any one approach.

Three Years After FATAA: What’s the Current State of US Foreign Assistance Data?

By Sally Paxton and George Ingram | May 23, 2019 | Blog

The Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act (FATAA) was passed by Congress in 2016 to require the US agencies involved in implementing foreign assistance to publish detailed country-based information on their activities. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently assessed how well the 22 agencies are complying with the data requirements. Our US representative Sally Paxton and the Brookings Institution’s George Ingram have been analysing the OMB report and conclude that it falls short in a number of ways. In this blog they summarise the gaps and missed opportunities.

New Tool Checks Availability and Compliance of IATI Data

By Sam Cavenett | Apr 30, 2019 | News

IATI Canary is a free data monitoring and alert service. It checks to ensure IATI data is both available and compliant with the IATI schema.

Does Noisy Data Put IATI Users Off?

By Charlotte Smith and James Coe | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog

Silvia Poggioli, country director of AIFO Liberia, talks to us about her experience of using IATI data and the challenges of navigating thousands of activities.

Six Ideas to Increase the Use of Global Aid Transparency Data

By Guest | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog

As Publish What You Fund and others in the aid transparency community turn their energies toward improving data use, Ruth Levine and Joseph Asunka of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation present six practical ideas that could speed up progress. These ideas could go a long way to increase the use of data by government officials, and the organisations and citizens working to hold their government officials accountable for results.

A Year in Blogs – Publish What You Fund in 2018

By Sam Cavenett | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog

It’s been a busy year at Publish What You Fund. As is traditional at this time of year, we’ve been reflecting on what we’ve achieved and what we need to do next. Here’s our quick roundup of what the team has been up to – from the influential Aid Transparency Index, and on the ground research into aid flows in Liberia and Cambodia, to developing new tools to increase access to aid and development data.

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