Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 11:02
The success of aidinfo means that we are now seeking to expand our existing team. We currently have opportunities for the following roles:
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 15:36
The GiveWell Blog nails i:... Consider the current state of the nonprofit sector.
* We have practically no information about charities’ effects on the people they serve.
* Donor misinformation is rampant. Failure to disclose basic facts sets off no one’s alarm bells even coming from the world’s biggest charities.
* Charities aggressively expand programs with great stories but questionable track records. (Three examples recently posted here: Village Phone, agriculture aid and microfinance).
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 17:00
We have been working on a series of ‘use cases’ to gain an in-depth understanding of the information needs of different types of users. As far as we know, this is the first systematic effort to identify the various needs of users of aid information. The studies look at three partner countries (Rwanda, Malawi and Cambodia), a think tank (ODI), and a research institute (IHME). The final study summarises the findings of research in four communities in Nicaragua to find out what local people know about aid projects in their communities.
Monday, October 12, 2009 - 09:38
Monday, September 21, 2009 - 18:07
We’re pleased to announce the publication of a new report, Unlocking the potential of aid information. The report, by the Open Knowledge Foundation and aidinfo, looks at how to make information related to international development (i) legally open, (ii) technically open and (iii) easy to find.
It aims to inform the development of a IATI platform for publishing and sharing aid information.
Sunday, September 6, 2009 - 12:35
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 07:31
Interesting paper by Vanessa Gottlieb on whether new media really challenges the existing power structures:
In democracies these technologies are appropriated and used as much by those in power as they are by those who feel disempowered. In non-democratic countries, the prohibitively high cost of these technologies means that society’s most disempowered often do not have access, and where they do new media as a tool for freedom of expression cannot yet compete with sheer physical force.
Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 12:38
AWEPA’s conference ‘Promoting African-European Parliamentary Dialogue on Climate, Food Security and Development’ in Stockholm August 09 focused on the role that Parliamentarian’s can play in the lead up to and during COP 15, UN Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen this year. The conference held a number of sessions which examined the link between adaptation and development; institutional architecture; financing the gap; budgetary oversight of climate funds and the way forward to Copenhagen and beyond.
Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 21:39
Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 10:07
Excellent research conducted by IHME on Development Assistance for Health.
