Akvo Open Data Development Camp

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Akvo's Peter van der Linde opened the Amsterdam Open Data Development Camp on 12 May 2011. Here he talks about the challenges of opening up aid data and describes Akvo's work in early 2011 to bring online more than half a billion Euro of the Dutch water and sanitation aid portfolio in a transparency pilot.

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In development aid today, a lot of good things

are happening

More people are getting involved

Charmermrk, Flickr

Walking for Water

Things get done

Biosand filter installation, Katombora, Zambia

Most work remains invisible

Some projects are displayed

S. Kim, Personal

Most get filed away

Vlasta2, Flickr

And can’t be compared.

CrazyVet, Flickr

Everyone agrees about the virtues of

transparency

Transparencyis useless

Transparency is useless

Without clear communication

@petervdl

An open-source, global platform

Online and mobile tools for development aid

Reporting directly from the field

Building transparency and trust

Transparency of budgets and insight in results is limited.

Open data will lead to more efficient development aid.

Transparency of budgets and insight in results is limited.

Open data will lead to more efficient development aid.

2011: initiate strategy to open up development aid data.

Transparency of budgets and insight in results is limited.

Where did the money go

Easy to access and compare

project budget: 100.000.000

project budget: 100.000.000

risk of not achieving goals: high

project budget: 100.000.000

risk of not achieving goals: highEasy to understand?

pilot with Foreign Affairs

The challenge

1) Open up data for 24 (€525.8M) water programs

1) Be IATI compliant

2) Be easy to use and understand

Online displayDistributed publishing

XML exportIATI-compliant data

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Process

Existing data format

IATI Standard

Retooled Akvo database

New IATI-compliant

Akvo data format

Project data

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BeMO

CSVCSV

Pyramide

Online displayDistributed publishing

XML exportIATI-compliant data

+

Process

Existing data format

IATI Standard

Retooled Akvo database

New IATI-compliant

Akvo data format

Project data

PDFPDFPDFPDF

PDFPDF

BeMO

CSVCSV

Pyramide

2 hour – 25 M

Example

Example

Open for contributions

IATI compliant

Challenge

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Background

CSVCSV

Pyramide

The crowd ?

Anirud Koul

The opportunity

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Background

CSVCSV

Pyramide

Manual work, small investment - high value

Adapt core process

Joined effort

A better place

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