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Why hasn't development journalism solved the aid accountability problem?

Isn't there a lot of ink out there on development issues?  Why is there still a problem with aid accountability? As far as media coverage o…

Started by Carla Murphy

2 Apr 7, 2010
Reply by Carla Murphy

Session Idea: Let's make development knowledge on the web easier to mashup, find, and aggregate

This session will focus on ways that development organizations can do a better job of publishing their information, knowledge, and resource…

Started by Joe Pringle

6 Mar 25, 2010
Reply by John B

10 ideas from Friday's Aid Information Challenge

Thanks to everyone who participated in the aid information challenge on Friday. It was a great discussion that brought together a mix of pe…

Started by Joe Pringle

0 Mar 15, 2010

Happy Hour after the event

Heads Up: A few of us are planning to meet up at The Exchange on Friday after we wrap up. Some people who cannot come to the Aid Informatio…

Started by Elizabeth Corley

2 Mar 12, 2010
Reply by Rakesh Singh

Opening Government Data via SMS Text Messaging

So we all know about Ushahidi, right? How its being used for everything from Haiti earthquake response to Washington DC snowplow activity.…

Started by Wayan Vota

2 Mar 12, 2010
Reply by Wayan Vota

Government Data Visualization Tools from Google & IBM

Here are two cool data visualization tools that may be of interest to this group: The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets eas…

Started by Wayan Vota

0 Mar 12, 2010
Reply by Wayan Vota

Session Idea: What good does making data open really do?

How do you communicate the value of open data when you cannot specify what will actually be done with it? The Guardian provides an interest…

Started by Elizabeth Corley

0 Mar 11, 2010

Session Idea: International Aid Transparency Initiative

Steve Davenport serves on the technical advisory group of the IATI. He will give us an update on the initiative, where they are with the st…

Started by Elizabeth Corley

1 Mar 10, 2010
Reply by Alain d'Aboville

Has any country or organization published its exceptions to the Transparency rules?

To protect the interest of their citizens and staff, countries have limits on the AID Data they can publish. Their contractors will need to…

Started by Alain d'Aboville

0 Mar 3, 2010

What about Open Standards?

Others know this topic better than I, but I'm thinking Open Standards should be a key focus, so no matter what system data is in, it can be…

Started by Wayan Vota

4 Feb 25, 2010
Reply by Jessica Sloan

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