Last Saturday, the UK Government hosted a pre-G8 Tax, Trade & Transparency event in London. In the open data session, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude identified three corresponding challenges: to make all data open by default, to consider privacy but not to let it be an excuse, and to invest in the demand side and give more […]
This is a joint post with Judith Randel, Executive Director of Development Initiatives, originally posted in Devex. Last Saturday, the United Kingdom hosted a G-8 session specifically on Trade, Tax and Transparency — billed as the ‘3Ts’ event. This event highlighted the importance of transparency and accountability for development, and Publish What You Fund attended to ensure that aid remains part […]
Guest post by ONE’s Alan Hudson, originally posted here In less than two weeks, on 17th and 18th June in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, world leaders will converge for the G8 Summit. The UK government has shown great leadership in setting a ground-breaking agenda on trade, tax and transparency, but the focus now needs to be on […]
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 […]
The UK and French governments announced yesterday that they will join the international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a voluntary multi-stakeholder approach to greater transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries. The UK has been one of the EITI’s main supporters since its foundation, but until now has resisted joining as a candidate country. EITI candidate […]
[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 […]
