Earlier this year, the global campaign for aid transparency “Publish What you Fund” released the 2018 Aid Transparency Index. The report compares 45 major international donors in relation to how they provided the public with information about their work in the past year across 36 indicators in 5 areas: organizational planning and commitments, finance and budgets, project … [Read more...] about How can development organizations improve their open data for aid transparency?
How to
This tag brings together all the articles in Abierto al Público that provide "how-to" guidelines to achieve knowledge goals or to promote the dissemination of open knowledge. These are articles that facilitate the understanding of more complex topics related to open knowledge, and that present information in a timely and easy manner.
The digital strategy that generated over 10 million downloads
This year, we achieved a milestone at the Inter-American Development Bank: we hit 10 million downloads of our publications available to the public via our knowledge repository, since we began measuring the indicator in 2013. We reached this figure thanks in grand part to our strategy for disseminating knowledge online with communications campaigns, which has driven exponential … [Read more...] about The digital strategy that generated over 10 million downloads
CrowdLaw: how to design a public participation initiative for lawmaking
[message_box title="" color="blue"] This is Part II of a two-part series by The Governance Lab at the NYU School of Engineering on how to design a public participation initiative for lawmaking. The series is based on “Congress Is Broken; CrowdLaw Could Help Fix It” and “10 Recommendations for Designing Better CrowdLaw Initiatives.” [/message_box] In 2014, Brazil’s … [Read more...] about CrowdLaw: how to design a public participation initiative for lawmaking
CrowdLaw: The Demand for Public Participation in Lawmaking
[message_box title="" color="blue"] This is Part I of a two-part series by The Governance Lab at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, based on two articles on how to promote public participation in lawmaking: “Congress Is Broken; CrowdLaw Could Help Fix It,” which appeared in Forbes January 23, 2018 and “10 Recommendations for Designing Better … [Read more...] about CrowdLaw: The Demand for Public Participation in Lawmaking
More or better investment? What data tells us on how to close the infrastructure gap in Latin America and the Caribbean
Leer blogpost en español By Tomás Serebrisky, Ancor Suárez-Alemán, Cinthya Pastor and Andreas Wohlhueter from the Infrastructure and Energy Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank Recent data from INFRALATAM (2017) – the open data portal about economic infrastructure investment in the region, developed by the IDB, the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), and … [Read more...] about More or better investment? What data tells us on how to close the infrastructure gap in Latin America and the Caribbean