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The document discusses the importance of open data in international development, specifically through the lens of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), which aims to improve transparency and effectiveness of aid resources. It details the features of open data, the challenges it addresses, and how organizations, such as Cordaid, can implement IATI standards for better data management and accountability. Additionally, it highlights various types of open data and practical steps for organizations to commit to and publish their data effectively.
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- 1. CARE. ACT. SHARE.LIKE CORDAID. WORKING WITH OPEN DATA OPENING OPEN
- 2. PRESENTATION OVERVIEW • TheProblem • Open Development • Open Data • IATI • Cordaid and Open Data • Examples • Why are we doing this? Bonus: How to Implement IATI 29 OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID
- 3. IS THERE SOMETHINGWRONG WITH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT? Long Ago, In A World Before Open Data 29 OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID
- 4. CARE. ACT. SHARE.LIKE CORDAID. ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY AND ENGAGEMENT LOOKING FORWARD
- 5. OPEN DEVELOPMENT EXPLAINED OpenData and International Development 29 OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID
- 6. HOW DO WEDEFINE OPEN…. 29 OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID The key features of Open Development • Content • License • Standards • Collaboration The key features of Open Data • Availability and access • Reuse and redistribution • Universal participation
- 7. WHAT KINDS OFOPEN DATA? THERE ARE MANY AREAS WHERE WE CAN EXPECT OPEN DATA TO BE OF VALUE • Cultural: Data about cultural works and artefacts — for example titles and authors — and generally collected and held by galleries, libraries, archives and museums. • Science: Data that is produced as part of scientific research from astronomy to zoology. • Finance: Data such as government accounts (expenditure and revenue) and information on financial markets (stocks, shares, bonds etc). • Statistics: Data produced by statistical offices such as the census and key socioeconomic indicators. • Weather: The many types of information used to understand and predict the weather and climate. • Environment: Information related to the natural environment such presence and level of pollutants, the quality and rivers and seas. • Transport: Data such as timetables, routes, on-time statistics. 29 OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID
- 8. WHY OPEN (DATA)DEVELOPMENT? WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED WITH OPEN (DATA) DEVELOPMENT? • Transparency and democratic participation • Releasing social and commercial value • Participation and engagement • Improved effectiveness • Improved efficiency • Creation of new knowledge • Stimulate innovation 29 OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID
- 9. CARE. ACT. SHARE.LIKE CORDAID. INTERNATIONAL AID TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE INTERNATIONAL AID TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE
- 10. Busan HLF 2011 AccraHLF 2008 Where does IATI come from? “Implement a common, open standard for electronic publication of timely, comprehensive and forward looking information on resources provided through development cooperation...” Busan Declaration Para. 23 c “publicly disclose regular, detailed and timely information on volume, allocation and results...” “provide regular and timely information on forward expenditure and implementation plans...” Accra Agenda for Action Para. 24a and 26b
- 11. INTERNATIONAL AID TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE •aims to address these challenges by making information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand. • voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to improve the transparency of aid, development and humanitarian resources in order to increase their effectiveness in tackling poverty • A key aspiration is using IATI compliant data at country level 29 OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID
- 12. What is IATI? Multi- Stakeholder Common Standard Singlepoint of access
- 13. Why do weneed IATI? Different formats Hard to find Not current Not comprehensive Inconsistent In multiple locations Not forward looking Not comparable There’s lots of information available but it’s...
- 14. How does IATIchange the state of play? In a standardised format Updated Regularly From a range of actors All in one place Forward looking Comparable IATI enables organisations to publish data that is...
- 15. What is theIATI data format? Machine- readable Easy to convert Easy to compare XML
- 16. WHAT IS INCLUDED? 29OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID • Basic activity information • Participating organisations • Geopolitical information • Classifications • Financial information and transactions • Related documents • Performance
- 17. HOW IATI DATACAN BE USED? From its raw form, a technical user can transform IATI data into: • tables • spreadsheets • web applications • printed documents • data visualisations • different apps 29 OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID
- 18. What is theIATI Registry? www.iatiregistry.org
- 19. What kind oforganisations are publishing to IATI? International NGO Government Multilateral National NGO Private Sector Academic, Training and Research Foundation Other Public Sector Regional NGO Public Private Partnership 267
- 20. QUESTIONS? 29 OCTOBER 2014CORDAID
- 21. CARE. ACT. SHARE.LIKE CORDAID. BUILDING FLOURISHING COMMUNITIES CORDAID
- 22. CORDAID AND OPENDATA 29 OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID
- 23. USING OPEN DATA •Process started 2013 at Cordaid • Challenging step was the change management of people • Started as a communication tool • • Shifting to strategic tool • Used as Information Management System • Makes us more accountable as an organization 29 OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID
- 24. THE PROCESS ATCORDAID 1. Program officers enter project data like always • Just change the requirements and add restrictions to standardise • Creates ownership on content and accountability towards partners • No interpretation by communication department 2. Stick to the standard project management process • No extra workload • Just more disciplined, structured and demand for conscious of publication • Advantage: it’s being used! 3. Adjust the PMS system to the IATI standard • Use the standard as a guideline -> less discussion • Make it realy user friendly • Make choices on reported information -> clean up! 29 OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID
- 25. CORDAID IATI DATA 29OCTOBER 2014 CORDAID Overview of activities in Cordaid’s IATI Activity File • 1354 Projects on IATI Registry • 899 Projects on website • 739 Partners Organizations • 41 Countries • 75 New Projects Q3 2014 • 375 Project Updates and counting…
- 26. WHAT DO WEUSE IT FOR? Where, Why, Who, What and How • Where are we working? • Why do we work, where we work? • Who do we work with? • What are we doing to improve the resilience of fragile communities? • How do we know it is working?
- 27. VISUALIZATIONS 29 OCTOBER 2014CORDAID Cordaid Country Overview https://www.cordaid.org/en/countries/ Cordaid Country Landing https://www.cordaid.org/en/countries/democratic-republic- of-the-congo/ Infogram https://infogr.am/cordaid-iati-activity-file Piktochart https://magic.piktochart.com/output/2802604- investments StoryMap http://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/storymapjs/latest/embed/?url= https://6ff917bcb85469a142d12883384e710a8244dd30.goo gledrive.com/host/0B2mDeH_q44p9X09KcUVvTVFtV3M/pu blished.json CartoDB http://rbesseling.cartodb.com/viz/cd556fa2-4d8d-11e4- 9e47-0e4fddd5de28/embed_map QliksSense – Desktop Software
- 28. CARE. ACT. SHARE.LIKE CORDAID. LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
- 29. FROM THIS… 29 OCTOBER2014 CORDAID
- 30. …TO THIS 29 OCTOBER2014 CORDAID
- 31. HOW TO IMPLEMENTIATI Practical Steps
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- 34. Publication Process: Pre-Publishing Post-Publishing Updatedata quarterly Improve data quality Publishing Review your data Create a Registry Account Pre-Publishing Select publication method Decide how to structure data Produce an Implementation Schedule
Editor's Notes
- #3 Introduction to Cordaid, Business Units, IATI Since, Open Development, Open Data, IATI, Cordaid Open Data,
- #4 Biased Youtube Video, but does have some points; Questions that can be asked Why more management? Because there was a poor flow of information and knowledge about what was going on, no communication channels Why more meetings? Because this was the only way to communicate project information to each other and make decisions, based on talking, but excluding the experts Budget Cuts? Very real life threat we are all feeling, how do we do the same amount of work with less resources? The answer, become more efficient, dynamic and co-create solutions to complex problems. This is where open development comes in
- #6 Point 1: Many individuals and organisations collect a broad range of different types of data to perform their tasks. Many different actors, lots of different data, lots of different tools used, none of it shared. Sharing it through one central portal is of course a good idea, in theory. Point 2: But like they said, making data public does not create engagement. Something I hear very often is, “I have published my information, why is no one using it?” Publishing is not even, being open is only the first step. Point 3: There are also many different groups of people and organisations who can benefit from the availability of open data. Is open effective and efficient? Only if it gets used and it’s also about creating the tooling to enable this. Without this, it’s just data sitting somewhere. Without it, it’s not easily accessible.
- #7 Content – Share designs, code, knowledge, facts and figures License – Grant rights to access data and reuse Standards – Have a standard to easily exchange and combine information on a timely manner Collaboration – Consumers, become producers, co-creation Availability and access: the data must be available as a whole and at no more than a reasonable reproduction cost, preferably by downloading over the internet. The data must also be available in a convenient and modifiable form. Reuse and redistribution: the data must be provided under terms that permit reuse and redistribution including the intermixing with other datasets. The data must be machine-readable. Universal participation: everyone must be able to use, reuse and redistribute — there should be no discrimination against fields of endeavour or against persons or groups. For example, ‘non-commercial’ restrictions that would prevent ‘commercial’ use, or restrictions of use for certain purposes (e.g. only in education), are not allowed.
- #9 This goes back again to the first video of the first development organization which was not doing any of these.
- #10 Developing countries face huge challenges in accessing up-to-date information about aid, development and humanitarian flows – information that they need to plan and manage those resources effectively. Similarly, citizens in developing countries and in donor countries lack the information they need to hold their governments to account for the use of those resources. IATI aims to address these challenges by making information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand. IATI is a voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to improve the transparency of aid, development and humanitarian resources in order to increase their effectiveness in tackling poverty. IATI brings together donor and recipient countries, civil society organisations and other experts in aid information who share the aspirations of the original IATI Accra Statement and are committed to working together to increase the transparency of aid. A key aspiration is using IATI compliant data at country level. IATI, with Development Gateway, has successfully piloted automated data exchange between donors’ IATI data feeds and the national aid management system in DRC, the Plateforme de Gestion de l’Aide et des Investissements (PGAI).
- #11 IATI was launched in 2008 at the third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra. It was designed, in part to support donors to meet their political commitments on transparency, as laid out in the Accra Agenda for Action. IATI was then a central aspect of the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in 2011. The outcome document included a specific reference to IATI, requiring all endorsers of Busan to implement a common open standard for the publication of data on development cooperation by December 2015.
- #12 The most important point from this video is the point about following the money from the donor to the project in country. What we want to explore in a minute and what we will ask you to do is explore this concept further. What are the different stakeholders involved from A – Z and what roles do they play? Make aid more effective by making it comparable Knowledge and information management Public and media have some level of control and check of development flow Donors can be held accountable for the how, where and why of their projects Link different stakeholders, private companies, ngos, government etc. Needs analysis tool, who is working where doing what? Combine datasets Provide up to date information instead of annual reports (more transparency) Craig Fagan, Transparency International – In theory, you can follow the money from the donor to the project level . This is what we want to focus on.
- #13 IATI is a voluntary multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to increase the transparency of development cooperation and consequently improve its effectiveness in tackling poverty. At the centre of IATI is a data standard. This is a format and framework for publishing data on development cooperation activities, intended to be used by all organisations engaged in development, from government donors to private sector organisations, and national and international NGOs. It was designed in close consultation with key users of development cooperation data in developing countries, to ensure its relevance and utility for a variety of different data users. IATI also provides a single point of access for the data organisations publish to the IATI Standard. This is called the Registry. The Registry holds links to all the data that is being published in the IATI standard format, meaning that users can access it from one single point.
- #14 A number of systems and databases for reporting and capturing data on development cooperation already exist. A lot of information on development cooperation is already available, but is very problematic to use. This is because many systems tend to be producer, rather than user, oriented. This means that: N.B. Select 2 or 3 of the most relevant elements to present, not all. Data in different formats makes it difficult to mash up different data sets with each other. It can take a lot of time and effort for data users to find where information is kept. Data is often out of date, meaning that relevant, timely analysis and use of data is a challenge. Different systems use different vocabularies, definitions and measures of data making it difficult to compare between different datasets. Data can be inconsistent, with different elements or fields being reported or not reported. Data is not accessible from one single source, and must be searched for in different locations. Forward-looking development data is essential to support developing country governments in, but most data that is currently available is only reporting past activities and not planned, forward-looking ones. Existing data sets often don’t provide data from organisations beyond traditional bilateral and multilateral donors meaning the picture of development provided by the data is not comprehensive.
- #15 IATI has been designed to ensure that data is published in a user-centric way. At the beginning, IATI held consultations with government and civil society stakeholders from over 70 partner countries, about their information needs. The consultations confirmed that the priority needs were for timely, up-to-date and reliable information on current and future development cooperation. They also stressed the need for better coverage, including information from non-traditional providers, such as foundations, NGOs and technical cooperation providers. Taking this on board, IATI was designed in a particular way that enables all organisations to: N.B. Select 2 or 3 of the most relevant elements to present, not all. Publish in the same format as other organisations so it is easy to combine data sets from different organisations. Update their data on a monthly, quarterly or six-monthly basis, to ensure information is as up to date as possible. All different kinds of development cooperation providers to publish data – the standard is flexible, and we are working with different organisations all the time to make this easier. Publish in one central location. The IATI Registry provides links to the data published by all organisations using the IATI Standard. Provide, where possible, forward-looking information on their development project – this is particularly vital for developing country governments, who need this information to enable a more comprehensive and budgeting and national planning process. Publish in the same format, to enable easy comparison of data from many different kinds of organisations.
- #16 IATI uses a data format called XML. To the human eye, this can look rather complicated and confusing. However, its very easy to convert this format into more accessible formats – such as CSV, or even use it to drive tools that can generate graphs and tables of data from queries. The reason IATI uses XML is because it enables swift, machine-readable formatting of complex data that can be easily exchanged and compared and mashed up with other data published in the XML format.
- #18 IATI data is open, standardised and flexible – it can be freely converted into the appropriate format for a particular need. From one source, many different things can be made
- #19 N.B. Recommend taking a new screenshot of the registry before using this presentation, so it shows updated number of publishers The IATI registry serves as a single point of access for users to locate IATI data. It acts as a catalogue or index of all data published in the IATI format. Rather than holding the data on its own server, once an organisations has created a file of IATI XML data, they publish it on their own server or website, before adding a URL to the registry which takes users to the actual data.
- #20 Since organisations first started publishing in 2011, 267 (Update the notes and slide by looking at www.iatiregistry.org under “IATI Publishers”) have published data to the IATI Standard. These include International NGOs, bilateral and multi-lateral donors, private sector, foundations and research organisations. NGOs make up a considerable number of publishers, in part due to IATI reporting being made a funding requirement by some donors. IATI is constantly working with stakeholders from different kinds of organisations to ensure that the Standard is flexible enough and designed in a way that supports reporting of a variety of organisational models. At present, they are engaging with organisations working in Humanitarian Aid, to understand how IATI can support their publishing efforts.
- #23 Stichting (foundation) Cordaid is one of the largest development aid organizations in the Netherlands. We work closely with a network of 617 partner organizations in 38 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America as well as providing help to disadvantaged groups in the Netherlands itself. Building flourishing communities Fragility demands a comprehensive approach. Building flourishing communities requires more than only healthcare or security and justice. It demands combined action and programs in different disciplines to deliver empowerment, security, opportunity, entrepreneurship and governance so that people can rebuild trust, resilience and self-reliance
- #25 SINGLE SOURCE, SINGLE ENTRY BUILD ON THE PRIMAIRY PROCESS
- #27 Let just start with some basis questions and see how we use our IATI file and open data in answer these questions. Lets think about this generally first, as an organization where do we work? But more specifically, I want to know more about our unit DRR and their work in high risk countries. Pick a theme and then ask some questions. In this case, cordaid, DRR, Philippines But before I move on, who uses our data at the moment.
- #29 Back to the initial video as well, the world is changing, the international development world is getting more competitive, less resources, we have to work together.
- #30 So how, and which stakeholders, do we engage with and which technologies are appropriate for which stakeholder and what information do they want to know and which methods can they use to feedback information to us?
- #31 How do we report to each stakeholder and how do we provide each stakeholder with a voice. Is it time we demand more from donors than just money. Where is their input? How do we provide feedback to the different levels of stakeholders, how do the different levels report, based on what indicators? Do we all use the same indicators? Different indicator levels, do we cluster indicators? Is this whole process open?
- #32 The next section of the presentation will provide an outline of the process organisations go through to publish data on their development cooperation activities to the IATI Standard.
- #33 IATI recommends that organisations adopt a very pragmatic approach to publishing to IATI. Firstly, to commit to publication as an organisation, getting buy-in from other staff. Secondly, to publish a first set of data. This does not need to be perfect, and all that you aspire to do, but getting a first set of data out is a valuable learning experience. This can then be built on, perhaps by adding additional fields step by step Until finally you comply with the standard. IATI is about producing data in a MANAGEABLE way for publishers, that is MEANINGFUL for users.
- #34 The process of implementing IATI is not purely technical. In fact, the experience of existing publishers has shown that the most important area to focus on is: Policy – ensure that senior management buy in to and commit to the IATI agenda and the organisation’s plans to publish IATI data. ii) Once that is in place, ensure that internal data collection and management is in place to capture information accurately and well. This will mainly involve using or building on existing systems. iii) Finally, once these things are in place, the technical aspect of producing the XML data is not a large job. We’ll explore later some of the tools available to support organisations through the technical process.