[open-development] Good news for open aid data in Busan

Wed Nov 30 15:49:00 UTC 2011

Hi Tim!

Congratulations to you and AidInfo for the excellent news. It's really a good time for the community. The open aid data movement is moving definitively very fast !!!

All the best,
Ruth Del Campo
@ruthdelcampo
www.openaidregister.org

On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Tim Davies wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> You might have spotted some of the news coming out of the High Level Aid Effectiveness Forum in Busan: http://www.aidinfo.org/us-announce-their-commitment-to-aid-transparency-initiative.html
> 
> With Canada (thanks in no small part to some great campaigning by Engineers Without Borders), the USA, the UK's CDC, and the Inter-American Development Bank now committed to publishing open data on their aid activities using the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard, over 75% of global Official Development Finance is soon to be covered by IATI open data.
> 
> It's really good news to build on all the releases of open aid data that have come over the last week and which you can find at the newly updated http://www.iatiregistry.org - and means that the principle of transparent access to data on aid activities really has crossed the tipping point to becoming part of the mainstream of aid.
> 
> Of course, there is loads of work still to do - using open aid data as the foundation for prototypes, products and platforms to support more intelligent and effective development. I've tried to update http://www.aidinfolabs.org with details all the different ways IATI data is now being made available and used (including through an updated IATIExplorer.org, and a prototype tablet interface for browsing project data - http://www.aidview.net) and there are some challenges up at http://www.aidinfolabs.org/archives/773 for what could be done with IATI data as part of Open Data Day events this weekend. 
> 
> What else should we be doing to build upon this weeks good news on open data for development?
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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