Open Data

ODAdata is a user friendly donor reporting tool that provides a country-level overview of all official development assistance (ODA) activities. It was designed to strengthen donor coordination, harmonization, and alignment with country strategies, and increase the transparency of ODA information. ODAdata has been part of Development Gateway's aid effectiveness portfolio since August 2008.

ODAmoz 2.0 is the updated version of the original EC funded electronic data base that provides information on Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Mozambique. The original version was created in response to the Paris Declaration advocating for strengthened coordination and harmonization among Donors and alignment with the Government of Mozambique. After 4 years it had proven necessary to upgrade the technical basis to a more sophisticated model in order to meet the increasing and more complex needs of the government and its development partners. Furthermore the system has been made more user-friendly according to requests and feedback from all users.

ODAmoz enables to track Donors' and United Nations Agencies' projects and programs in the country: where they are operating, who finances them, and which organization implements them.

It is a user-friendly database, accessible to all through the internet. Its "Design your own report" function makes it easy to search for specific information through a set of predefined criteria (donor, DAC sector, location, project status, funding type and MDGs) and offers tables and geographic maps (ODAmap) for analysis.

This project supports the efforts of the US General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (GSA OCSIT) to expand the knowledge base related to supporting citizen services. Focused on supporting GSA OSCIT’s new initiatives in citizen services and open government, this project will yield two deliverables: 1) a practical resource to assist GSA OCSIT in their efforts to build out the thinking and strategies to support citizen services, and 2) a full research proposal that lays out the research questions surrounding emerging technologies, open government, and citizen services.

The practical resource will be an Open Government Framework based on a value driven approach to thinking about and acting on the principles of open government: transparency, collaboration, and participation. The Framework will provide a bridge between the concepts of open government and the pressure to "just do it.” The framework will be a tool for government managers to use in implementing their open government directives; supporting them as they move from ideas to action. The framework is grounded in a focus on public value creation and provides a tool for agencies to place stakeholders and public value creation in the center of their efforts. It will categorize and describe the attributes, characteristics, enablers, barriers, and potential assessment criteria for each of the open government principles so that agencies can create a shared understanding of the stakeholders served by each strategy and the potential impact of each.

The full research proposal will set forth a plan to tackle the most challenging research questions and seek to develop new knowledge about open government.

Show me the Tenders is an initiative led by Euroalert.net to publicly document where, how and in what conditions public procurement datasets are published in the different countries around the globe.

While at it, as if it wasn't a big enough task, every time we get together with a public body that manages any of these publications, we don't loose the opportunity to try to educate those that aren't aware of the importance of the reuse of Public Sector Information and Linked Data principles. RAW DATA NOW!.

This public repository of information has just been created, and it's in a very early stage of its existence; so any help you can provide (information about how this works in your country, contact information within one of those organizations, documentation about data formats, ...) it'll be much appreciated.