Slides for my presentation about Open Data and IATI in development cooperation, at the VENRO day about IATI, Dec 4th in Bonn, Germany

2. Open Development Explained
http://openforchange.info/content/open-development-explained

3. Analogue reality
Knowledge - Networks - Resources
Communities - Projects - Politics

4. Analogue reality
Knowledge - Networks - Resources
NGO
Communities - Projects - Politics

5. Digital reality
Knowledge - Networks - Resources
NGO
Communities - Projects - Politics

6. Sustainability
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Reduce - Re-use - Recycle

7. Open

8. Open

9. Open

10. Open

11. Open

22. Bjorkman and Svensson (2007). ‘Power to the People:
Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a
Community-Based Monitoring Project in Uganda’
Clinics got cleaner
Fewer drugs stolen
40-50% more children vaccinated
33% fewer children died under the age of five

24. Why open data?
● Enter data once, close to the source;
then re-use, exchange, enhance
● Improves quality and accuracy; first in
registration, next in decision-making
● Better insight in money flows, activities,
plans, results, circumstances, impacts
● Allows for participation, mobilisation, and
accountability

25. #SmartAid Debate
René Grotenhuis, director of Cordaid

26. In the transition of Cordaid
towards a social enterprise,
open data technology has had
a place from the very beginning.
We use the new IATI standard
first of all as the basis for our
“transparency application”.
#SmartAid Debate
René Grotenhuis, director of Cordaid

35. AidView

39. A project in DFID’s project-level database

40. The same DFID project in the IATI XML format

46. More information?
● www.iatistandard.org
● www.bond.org.uk/transparency
● www.aidinfolabs.org
● Open for Change: Rolf Kleef
– rolf@openforchange.info

48. Dutch released in IATI IATI data
Government data MFA publishes
13 September 2011, Den Haag

49. First NGO in the Netherlands
6 March 2012, Amsterdam

50. Hivos publishes IATI data
1 October 2012, Den Haag

51. Ambition
Agenda on the Implementation of the IATI
Standard by Dutch NGOs working in
International Development
● Istanbul Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness
● Busan Partnership for Effective Development
● Commitment to IATI, but in line with CSO principles

52. Busan partnership for Effective
Development Cooperation
Paragraaf 22: we will:
b) Encourage CSO’s to implement practices that strengthen
their accountability and their contribution to development
effectiveness, guided by the Istanbul Principles and the
International Framwork for CSO Development
Effectiveness

53. Time to act
●
Prioritities Partos and Concord (2012):
●
Principle 5: Practice transparency and accountability
●
Principle 6: Pursue equitable partnership and solidarity
●
Principle 7: Create and share knowledge and commit to mutual
learning
Why these?
All three have to do with relations and cooperation
among organisations

54. IATI Plan
●2-year programme
●“Open Information Policy”
●Opening data
● Peer events
● Technical advice meetings
● In-house technical support
●“Open development”