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