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The Development Gateway: An IREX Venture blog is where DGers share specific learnings, offer thought-provoking insights, and pose challenging questions for the sustainable development community derived from our work.
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Arrays, Objects, and Trees: A Look at JSON-formatted Contracting Data
The Open Impact Day conference hosted in Washington, D.C. this past month highlighted examples of open data in improving trust between citizens and their governments...
Looking Back Before You Leap
Last week was the Financing for Development conference where global funding was discussed to make the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a reality...
Technology in the Atlantic Basin
As the world prepares for the ratification of post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), countries and regions will confront both opportunities and challenges: opportunities for positive change and challenges in implementing new policies and procedures...
A Call for Action, Not Opening
The weeks following the International Open Data Conference 2015 in Ottawa have been different than I expected...
From Dollars to Decisionmaking at FFD3
This week, delegates from around the world are meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the third Financing for Development conference. One key outcome for this conference...
What Makes Big Data Good Data?
No one would argue that we shouldn’t make better use of the data that we have, and it’s generally agreed that visualizations can help make data more easily understood...
What Will It Take To Improve the Quality and Utility of Development Results?
The international aid community is serious about measuring its impact...
You Will Never Believe What Data Farce People Fall For!
Literacy rates are commonly tracked across the globe. A foreseeable indicator to be tracked in the future as we head further and further into a data driven world will be data literacy rates....
It’s All About Relationships
A few weeks ago, Owen Barder took to the blogosphere to talk about what really effects change within countries, and the complexity of country systems...
Approaching Granularity: Connecting Open Aid and Open Contracting in Timor-Leste
As we move toward the Data Revolution, the role of data granularity and “joined-up” data is key to informing decision-making in development program allocations.