Connecting Open Resource Flows for Development
OKCon, 16 September 2013
Open Data
• “A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”
• http://opendefinition.org
Resource flows
• Budgets• Aid• Humanitarian• Climate Finance• Extractives
• Contracts• Organisation IDs
Initiatives
• EITI (extractives)• IATI (aid)• GIFT, OBI (budgets)• Open Contracting
Agenda
• Introduction, key concepts• Brief introduction from each organisation
– You work in your main resource flow– Work that crosses into other resource flows
• Challenges, opportunities• Next steps
Aid
• Our main work is on the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
• Annual Index of 67 donors• Aid Transparency Tracker to analyse and
push improvements in data quality• Limited work on data use
Aid + budgets
• Work to link the two together• Built a visualisation to demonstrate
potential
Challenges and opportunities
• What can we already do/see– Within/between resource flows– Similarities (or not) between resource flows
• What do we need to solve– Organisation IDs; classifications; tools
• How do we get there– What initiatives, institutions can we work
through
Other events
• Tuesday 1445 - Human Centred Data: What Should Public Spending Data Tell us?
• Wednesday 1030 – Follow the Money