Posts by Josh Powell

As unlikely as it seems for public procurement to generate excitement worldwide, the past several years have seen the rise of...

Last week, Tom Steinberg caused a buzz in the open data community with his strong commentary on...

Development Gateway is proud to announce a new program with the Government of Vietnam, supported by the World Bank Open Contracting team to help increase the transparency...

The global community, as represented at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit and beyond, has made strides in producing a variety of open data, including open aid data....

At the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals is the need to ensure that nobody is left behind...

Investments in data – and open data – have grown during the 15 years of the MDG era...

Earlier this month, Publish What You Fund’s U.S. Aid Transparency Review showed strong improvements from the U.S. Government (USG)....

This blog post introduces a new DG working paper on the use of IATI data in country Aid Information Managements Systems (AIMS). The working paper aims to help inform discussions at the IATI TAG and Steering Committee Meetings, to be held in Ottawa from May 30-June 2...

A few weeks ago, an Overseas Development Institute-led consortium of partners hosted a wide range of organizations and Governments for an event entitled “Financing the Future.” In essence, the purpose of this event was to collect feedback and share thoughts on the the “zero draft” of the Financing for Development (FfD) outcome document which hit during the event...

On March 19-20, the IATI Secretariat convened a Regional Workshop on Development Data and Usage. This event included 14 country governments from across Africa, as well as a handful of Ghanaian and international civil society organizations and service providers.