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the first open development barcamp was held in Washington DC on Friday and, by all accounts, was a great success. It was certainly very inspiring to see around 100 people discussing transparency and how to improve access to aid information, data on outcomes, knowledge, and tools.

Owen Barder of aidinfo set the scene nicely with some opening remarks about how and why the information revolution can play a big role in the elimination global poverty. See his notes here

check out the website to get a flavour from the forum and twitter conversations

"Open development camp: data and collaboration" has now sold out. This is a barcamp-style event held on 10th July in Washington DC organised by aidinfo, Development Gateway Foundation, World Bank, Forum One and Global Development Commons aiming to bring together a group of people to discuss transparency and accessibility of development information. As it turns out a lot of people want to discuss this topic - over 100 that have signed up in fact!

The White House blog summarises last week's open government brainstorming on transparency. Here is an extract:

1) Transparency Principles: How do we define transparency so that we can prioritize our policymaking?