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What should donors make of OECD aid data in XML?
CROSS POST FROM PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND - NB – I serve as board member for Publish What You Fund which I helped found back in 2008. Please read this important post by Andrew Clarke, Advocacy Manager for...
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No transparency organization can get away with…
No transparency organization today can or should get away with simply saying that their job is to put the data, information out there, and others will do the rest. I don’t mean that every transparency...
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This week in transparency and accountability
From Dani Kaufmann at Revenue Watch Institute http://www.revenuewatch.org/news/blog/tackling-next-challenges-revenue-transparency Bono’s speech at TED now live...
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This week in Transparency/Accountability
Great work on data immersion programs from the UK ODI http://www.theodi.org/events/immersion-programme Broaden, deepen and connect data – the OKF conference 2013 will be Sept 17-18th in Geneva...
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Why is the OpenGov movement siloed?
As a follow up to my post ‘on the open government movement and silos’ quite a few people came back to me asking ‘well this is all very nice but why are open government groups not working better...
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Follow the Money, Follow the Data
Some thoughts which I hope may be helpful in advance of the ‘follow the data’ hack day this week-end: The open data sector has quite successfully focused on socially-relevant information: fixing...
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This week in Transparency and Accountability
Really great blog by David Eaves on open data http://eaves.ca/2013/04/25/the-value-of-open-data-dont-measure-growth-measure-destruction/ “Look at CKAN and Socrata. Most people believe these are open...
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New US open data policy
Am sure no-one missed the White House’s executive order on Open Data but have found a quick list of relevant links to be helpful: From the White House...
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OGP Rules of the Game
I worry that civil society advocates working on Open Government Partnership are making a tactical mistake. There has been a lot of activity – rightly – around which OGP countries should be ‘in or out’....
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Why we should welcome a G8 Open Data Charter
This is republished from my article in the Telegraph: Trust in government has rarely been at a lower ebb. Citizens in developed and developing countries alike feel increasingly disconnected from the...
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Open by Default
Cross-posted from the Publish What You Fund blog. I am very fortunate to have been involved with Publish What You Fund since its launch alongside the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)...
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What’s the point of open data?
I’ve been puzzling for a while how the open data community can help the many great groups that have been fighting for transparency of key money flows for the past decade and more. I think one answer...
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Privacy – the Open Government Party Crasher
The NSA leaks crashed the global open government party. Don’t get me wrong – I do not think this undermines the “whole idea of open government” as someone recently claimed to me. But the open...
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The Missing Link: How to Engage the Private Sector in OGP
Exciting Open Government Partnership (OGP) related development: a ‘private sector council’ has been created to develop recommendations for the OGP Steering Committee on engaging the private sector....
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The Ambition of Open Government Partnership
Coming back from two weeks on the road for OGP events, I’ve been struck by a few important developments within the global platform that OGP has now clearly become that I wanted to share: (1) This...
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Finding Mr. Smith or why anti-corruption needs open data
Anti-corruption groups have been rightly advocating for the release of information on the beneficial or real owners of companies and trust. The idea is to crack down on tax evasion and corruption by...
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OGP as a platform
Being within the Open Government Partnership (OGP), or even at the head of OGP, does not turn your country into a paragon of openness. On the contrary, it opens your country up to a process where you...
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What can OGP do for me?
We know that the Open Government Partnership is a powerful tool to implement national-level change. Brazil enacted its Freedom of Information Law thanks to OGP, the UK committed to public registries of...
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Testing the boundaries of OGP
Are governments most likely to reform before joining an international initiative or once they have joined it? The answer to this question will go a long way towards explaining the impact of Open...
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New Tool in the Fight Against Corruption: Open Data
New Tool in Fighting Corruption: Open Data Why We Welcome the G20 Open Data Principles Yesterday in Brisbane, the G20 threw its weight behind open data by featuring it prominently in the G20...
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