Plans

What is your vision for aid information? Are you planning a project with IATI data or other aid information that you want to tell the world about? Or maybe you have an idea that you would like to see someone build upon?

In this section you will find details of plans and work-in-progress to make use of aid information. You can tell us about your plans or ideas, however early stage or rough, on the share your work page.

IATI based applications: a call for proposals

One of the benefits of publishing data to a common standard is that it is possible to create applications that can be reused by different people. For instance, at the …Continue reading »

Idea: ‘Rapportive’ for development: contextual aid information

During the World Bank ‘Development Data Challenge 2012‘ ideation workshop, participants explored ideas on ways to make aid data more accessible and useful. One idea was pitched at the end …Continue reading »

Identifying the use cases for IATI data

Identifying the use cases for IATI data

As we start to move beyond a prototyping phase around data from the International Aid Transparency Initiative, and into a phase where donors publishing data, and third-parties working with that …Continue reading »

Work in progress: Open Aid Register

Work in progress: Open Aid Register

Guest post from Ruth Del Campo, developing Open Aid Register. Open Aid Register is a user friendly online registration and publishing system of aid projects. Focused on non-profits and small NGOs …Continue reading »

App development update: development insight explorer

App development update: development insight explorer

At the recent IATI Toolkit workshop in London AidInfo shared plans to develop a prototype tablet device and web-based application that would build on ideas from the IATI Explorer and …Continue reading »

Work in progress: IATI Web Entry Platform

Work in progress: IATI Web Entry Platform

Draft Screenshot & Summary The IATI Web Entry Platform is one of a number of developing tools to help small organisations create consistent IATI records about the projects they are …Continue reading »

Using the Guardian Open Content API

Using the Guardian Open Content API

The Guardian Open Platform provides API access to much of the content from the UK Guardian Newspaper. How could displaying news articles alongside aid project information help give users context and …Continue reading »

Linked data and IATI

Linked data and IATI

One thread of discussion at the recent Open Data for Development Camp was around linked data for development. This post is a snapshot of progress so far, and where we …Continue reading »

Creating an IATI toolkit?

Creating an IATI toolkit?

With more and more aid data being published using the International Aid Transparency Initiative standard, attention is turning to how we can use that data in practice. As Stephen Davenport recently tweeted, …Continue reading »

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