World Bank contracts will be available online as part of a global initiative to fight corruption and get governments to disclose their deals with private companies. In Johannesburg this week for the first Open contracting initiative meeting, Sanjay Pradhan, vice-president of the World Bank Institute said the organisation would “walk the talk”, ensuring its own contracts are disclosed […]
In a letter to Publish What You Fund, the new World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, reaffirmed the Bank’s commitment to the openness agenda and praised the campaign for their continued promotion of the issue. Jim Yong Kim said: “The World Bank sees openness and transparency as key to delivering better development results and strengthening accountability…we appreciate your […]
Brian Atwood, Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), has confirmed the organisation’s strong commitment to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). At a speech last night in London, Atwood impressed the crowd by saying the DAC is behind the aid transparency movement. He asserted that as much as 30% of aid is lost on transaction costs, […]
Publish What You Fund will participate in a high-profile event being held at the World Bank Spring Meetings tomorrow. The event will gather leading ministers from the g7+ group of fragile countries, development partners, representatives of civil society, and the private sector, to discuss how to translate the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States […]
The World Bank has confirmed that it will not support the use of Google Map Maker for citizen-mapping efforts unless it gives users free access to the map data they create. The World Bank and Google have launched a project using crowd-sourcing to populate maps with the locations of public services in the developing world […]
The World Bank today launched the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR), an open-access storehouse for its research and knowledge products. The OKR will collect, disseminate and permanently preserve World Bank research online. The website, along with the new Open Access Policy (effective from July), will increase the range of people who can now access World Bank […]
