There are a number of emerging activities focusing on improving the transparency of aid and allowing organizations, projects, researchers, practitioners, and clients in developing countries to have improved access to aid information, data on outcomes, knowledge, and tools.  We are getting closer to the day when anyone can easily determine who is doing what, where they are doing it, what they have learned, and who is funding them. Come join a group of interested organizations to brainstorm about how to advance the conversation about making aid more transparent, improving access to data, and making knowledge and tools related to development easier to find on the internet.

Date / Time

July 10th , 9am - 1pm, (with option to continue into afternoon)

Location

World Bank, 1818 H St, NW, Washington DC

Sponsors (contacts) 

• AidInfo - www.aidinfo.org, Simon Parrish simon@devinit.org
• Development Gateway - www.developmentgateway.org, Elizabeth Corley ecorley@dgfoundation.org
• World Bank - www.worldbank.org, Sameer Vasta svasta@worldbank.org
• Forum One Communications - www.forumone.com, Joe Pringle, jpringle@forumone.com 
• Global Development Commons at USAID -  Elizabeth Kountze, ekountze@usaid.gov, www.globaldevelopmentcommons.net

Format 

This will be an informal "barcamp" format where participants can set the agenda and talk with like-minded organizations about where this is headed, what we can do, how we can work together. Sessions

Possible topics for discussion could include: 

• who is doing what at the moment?
• how can we make more data available?
• what should a standard for development data info look like?
• APIs and mashups for development data
• towards a web standard for development web content - XML, microformats
• how can we get more groups involved?
• data visualizations for development data
• linking open data, web of data