AidView Updated
Alongside the first IATI Annual Report and updated version of the AidView platform has been launched providing a window onto a large amount of the data currently published using the IATI standard. …Continue reading
Understanding country level aid analysis
Open Aid Data is a powerful tool for national budgeting and planning. In Malawi, the Ministry of Finance has made use of the countries Aid Management Platform to produce a …Continue reading
World Bank Document Geotagger
QCRI have developed a prototype tool that takes World Bank projects data, and runs automated text-mining and geotagging against related documents to map out locations mentioned in the documents. The …Continue reading
New IATI Tracker launched
The new Aid Transparency Tracker developed by Publish What You Fund is a key step forward for the aid transparency process and the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), in order …Continue reading
Analysing German Development Assistance
The Offene Entwicklungshilfe site uses data on German Development Assistance from the OECD DAC Creditor Reporting System to provide a visual drill-down into where German aid has gone between 2000 and …Continue reading
Google/Guardian Aid Visualisation Competition Winner uses IATI data to show aid flows
The winner of the Google/Guardian competition to show aid flows is built with IATI data. The application, by Aidan Berentsen, draws on the full data from the IATI Registry and …Continue reading
UNDP Open Project Portal
The United Nations Development Programme have launched a new project portal for exploring over $5.8bn in development funding flows managed by the organisation. The portal provides a means to drill-down …Continue reading
Before and after – World Bank GeoResults
The World Bank Mapping for Results programme have been experimenting with before and after photos to illustrate the impact of projects.
Guardian/Google competition on visualising aid data
The Guardian are featuring a competition co-organised with Google calling for visualisations that explore aid data. Find out more on the Guardian website. Competition closing data is 29th November 2012.
DFID preview new projects portal website at Open Up!
At the Wired, Omidyar and DFID OpenUp! event on open government held in London yesterday, DFID were showing the alpha version of their new projects portal. The site is built …Continue reading
