IATI has come a long way since its launch in 2008, and 2016 presents exciting opportunities for the initiative to evolve in new directions. Improving humanitarian reporting The first World Humanitarian Summit being held in May this year presents a…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Category: Aid
Open Data goes local in Nepal: Findings of Nepal Open Data Index 2015
The Local Open Data Index Nepal 2015 is a crowdsourced survey that examines the availability of Open Data at city level. The survey was conducted for the first time in Nepal by Open Knowledge Nepal. See our previous post that…
Posted in Aid, Benefits of open data, Data, Informing Decision-making, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Research, Saving money, Transparency Tagged with: Nepal, OKFN, open data, open government, Open Knowledge Nepal, Transparency
Closing the Evidence Gap
This post complements the First Tranche year-end posts about what to look forward to in year four of the AidData HESN award, delving deeper into the questions of country-level data use. Every day, governments, development partners, and civil society leaders…
Posted in Aid, Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Research Tagged with: Aid, AidData, data, data usage, decision-making, geospatial, open data, Paige Kirby
Prototyping a new data collaboration platform for sustainable development
Guest contributors Julia Duncan and Nic Covey write a blog post on how to present data to researchers and practitioners in a productive, centralized way. On September 25th, on the margins of the UN Sustainable Development Summit, our organizations (The Demand…
Posted in Aid, Benefits of open data, Data, Environment, Food, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Quality of life, Research Tagged with: Food, Food security, Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (Godan), GODAN, Julia Duncan, Nic Covey, open data, Project 8, research, World Food Program (WFP), Zero Hunger
How Volunteers From All Over The World Have Transformed The Refugee Crisis On Lesbos
On a windswept, rocky outcrop high above the north coast of the Greek island of Lesbos, a small group of volunteers peered through binoculars at an inflatable boat bobbing across the waves a few miles away. Their jackets bore the…
Posted in Aid, Benefits of open data, Data, How, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Resilience, Smart communities Tagged with: Andrew Connelly, Lesbos, refugees, United Nations Refugee Agency, Vice News, Volunteers
What we achieved in 2015
2015 has been another busy year for IATI. We’ve increased the number of IATI publishers, worked towards improving data quality and usage, and engaged in the post-2015 development agenda. Here are our key achievements: The number and variety of IATI…
Posted in Aid, Benefits of open data, Data, Environment, Food, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Public safety, Quality of life, Research, Resilience, Saving money, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: Aid, International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), Joni Hillman, Transparency
Latin America and the Caribbean Depend on Open Government for Sustainable Development
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations on September 2015 represents a historic milestone. The new agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were formulated through an unprecedented, open and participatory process led by governments…
Will Open Data Policies Contribute to Solving Development Challenges?
Fabrizio Scrollini at IODC: “As the international open data charter gains momentum in the context of the wider development agenda related to the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations, a pertinent question to ask is: will open data policies contribute…
Posted in Aid, Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Resilience, Transparency Tagged with: Aid, data, Fabrizio Scrollini, Govlab, health, international development, open data, Open data policy, Stefaan Verhulst, Sustainable development, Transparency
In post-earthquake Nepal, open data accountability
This map shows landslide sites. ICIMOD a team led by NASA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) maps and monitors potential geohazards using satellite data. One of the first things I did after the earthquake on 25th April was…
Posted in Aid, Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Resilience, Transparency, Visualising data Tagged with: Deepa Rai, Disaster Data Portal, disaster response, earthquake, geohazards, landslide, Nepal, open data, satellite, World Bank
Democratizing Data – How Open Data Drives Sustainable Development
Later this week, world leaders will adopt the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations. As they face the huge task of meeting these goals, they should consider drawing on a powerful new resource. Open data – data…