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.

1. Transparency pilot Foreign Affairs

2. In development aid today, a lot of good things are happening

3. More people are getting involved Charmermrk, Flickr Walking for Water

4. Things get done Biosand filter installation, Katombora, Zambia

5. Most work remains invisible

6. Some projects are displayed S. Kim, Personal

7. Most get filed away Vlasta2, Flickr

8. And can’t be compared. CrazyVet, Flickr

9. Everyone agrees about the virtues of transparency

10. Transparency is useless

11. Transparency is useless Without clear communication

12. @petervdl

13. An open-source, global platform

14. Online and mobile tools for development aid

15. Reporting directly from the field

16. Building transparency and trust

19. Transparency of budgets and insight in results is limited.

20. Open data will lead to more efficient development aid. Transparency of budgets and insight in results is limited.

21. 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.

23. Where did the money go

25. Easy to access and compare

27. project budget: 100.000.000

28. project budget: 100.000.000 risk of not achieving goals: high

29. project budget: 100.000.000 risk of not achieving goals: high Easy to understand?

30. pilot with Foreign Affairs

32. Online display Distributed publishing XML export IATI-compliant data + Process Existing data format IATI Standard Retooled Akvo database Project data New IATI-compliant Akvo data format PDF PDF PDF BeMO CSV Pyramide

33. Online display Distributed publishing XML export IATI-compliant data + Process Existing data format IATI Standard Retooled Akvo database Project data 2 hour – 25 M New IATI-compliant Akvo data format PDF PDF PDF BeMO CSV Pyramide

35. Example

36. Example Open for contributions

37. IATI compliant

39. Challenge PDF PDF PDF Background CSV Pyramide

40. The crowd ? Anirud Koul

41. The opportunity PDF PDF PDF Background CSV Pyramide

42. Manual work, small investment - high value

43. Adapt core process

44. Joined effort

45. A better place