Geocoding can help governments and development partners improve division of labor
Mapping aid activities is a powerful way to show what donors are doing and where, which could be a big help in division of labor discussions. Through a pilot country-level geocoding exercise, the...
Mapping Tool Analyzes How Climate Change, Conflict, and Aid Intersect
PRESS RELEASE Washington, DC – March 2, 2012 – The Strauss Center’s Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program has released the pilot version of its dynamic mapping tool. In...
Honduras is First AMP Country in Central America
Honduras recently became the first country in Central America and the second middle-income country to use the Aid Management Platform (AMP, or Plataforma de Gestión de la Ayuda in Spanish). During...
Story from the Field: AMP Workshop
This Story from the Field comes from Djamila Kerim, a Development Gateway Senior Associate working on the Aid Management Program: This year, I was able to attend the AMP workshop for a second time....
Fourth AMP Best Practices Workshop Held In Dakar
The 4th Aid Management Platform (AMP) Best Practices Workshop was held from Jan. 24-26 in Dakar, Senegal. More than 90 people attended from nineteen AMP countries and several observer countries (you...
Geocoding Hits the Ground
This Story from the Field comes from Joshua Powell, a Business Development Associate with Development Gateway focusing on AidData and geocoding work: Over the past two years, I have been able to...
Winner of the 2011 Photo Contest
Congratulations to Seshadri Moitra, winner of the 2011 Development Gateway Photo Contest, for his photo “Creative Art” taken in a remote village in West Bengal, India. According to Mr. Moitra, it...
Dispatch from Busan
From Nov. 29-Dec. 1, the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness was held in Busan, South Korea. In an interview with the Inter Press Service, Development Gateway CEO Jean-Louis Sarbib hailed...
Introducing AidData 2.0
Today, AidData launched its new and improved website, featuring more content and new data and marking an expansion in the program’s mission and scope. What began as a project to build a new kind of...
Development Gateway Software Developers Win Third Prize in EU Hackathon
On Nov. 8-9, 54 software developers representing 17 nationalities gathered at the European Parliament in Brussels for the EUHackathon “Hack4Transparency!” event. Teams of developers competed in a 24...
Putting Aid Data to Work: Event on November 4 (will be webcast)
On November 4, AidData, the Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program, and the World Bank Institute will co-host an all-day event to highlight trends in open data and aid...
Tackling Development Challenges with Data Visualization
“Tech@State: Data Visualization” took place on Sept. 23, 2011 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The event was organized by the U.S. Department of State, Development Gateway, AidData and...
Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Solutions: Possibilities and Pitfalls
A panel discussion on “Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Solutions,” hosted by the World Bank Institute on September 22, served as a platform for participants to discuss the multifaceted dimensions...
Monday, Oct. 3: Join a Discussion of the World Bank’s Governance and Anticorruption Strategy
On Monday, Oct. 3 (10 AM EST), Development Gateway will host a discussion with the author of a new report by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) on the World Bank’s governance and...
Watch Online: Tech@State on Data Visualization, Sept. 23, 2011
The next Tech@State event will be held on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and will focus on Data Visualization. Registration is open to the public, and the event will...
Photo Contest: Enter for a chance to win!
Show us your image of development in action, and you could win a $500 prize from Development Gateway. To celebrate the launch of our new website, we’re calling on photographers around the world to...
AfDB and AidData geocode aid projects
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and AidData recently released a data set containing the sub-national locations of all AfDB projects continent-wide approved from 2009-2010. The data, available at...
DG at the Open Data for Development Camp
This Story from the Field comes from Anna Lauridsen of Development Gateway International. She tells us about her participation in the Open Data for Development Camp held in Amsterdam in May:...
Open Data for Development Camp highlights challenges and innovations in aid transparency
The Open Data for Development Camp (ODDC), hosted by Open for Change in Amsterdam from May 12-13, proved to be a fantastic forum for discussion of practical issues in institutionalizing open data...
Where does aid go? Mapping the African Development Bank’s Activities
Last week, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and AidData launched an interactive map showing the precise locations of the AfDB’s ongoing operations in Cameroon, Morocco, and Tanzania. The map...
African Development Bank and AidData map development projects: Increasing aid transparency for greater development impact
PRESS RELEASE Lisbon and Washington, DC—June 9, 2011— At its Annual Meetings, being held from June 9-10 in Lisbon, the African Development Bank Group unveiled an interactive map showing the precise...
World Bank and AidData put aid information on the map
PRESS RELEASE Washington, DC – The World Bank has released maps of its activities in 81 countries as part of the Mapping for Results initiative, a partnership between the Bank and AidData. The ...
Aid information management in Mozambique: A success story
Development Gateway has worked with Mozambique since 2008 to update and expand its aid information management system, known as ODAmoz. ODAmoz was created in 2005 as a way to coordinate and harmonize...
Congratulations to the Apps for Development Winners!
On April 14, the World Bank announced winners of the Apps for Development Contest, which challenged software developers around the world to leverage World Bank open data in creating innovative...
Development Gateway and Esri partner to make international aid more transparent
PRESS RELEASE Washington, DC – Development Gateway, an international non-profit that makes information on development aid more transparent and accessible, signed a memorandum of understanding with ...
