Lauren Pfeifer

Yesterday, the President signed an Executive Order committing all federal government data to be open and accessible by default. This isn’t the first time that President Obama has signed an executive order about the importance of transparency and open government. So, what makes yesterday different? This time, we’re talking about an open data policy with

President Lula’s speech directly preceded the awarding of the 2013 Africare Leadership Award to Dr. Mo Ibrahim, ONE board member and friend. Dr. Ibrahim made his fortune in telecommunications, as founder of Celtel International, one of Africa’s most successful businesses.

Lauren Pfeifer, ONE’s Transparency and Accountability Research Assistant, discusses how 4.6 billion people around the world do not have access to budget information. Last week, the Budget Transparency, Accountability and Participation launched their budget transparency campaign – Make Budgets Public Now! The campaign will focus on ensuring that governments publish the essential documents that enable citizens and civil society to participate in the budget processes in their country, and ensure that their priorities are being addressed in those budgets.

Lauren Pfeifer, ONE’s Transparency and Accountability Research Assistant, shares Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s call for transparency and accountability mechanisms in the oil industry of Ghana. Renowned Nigerian economist and member of ONE’s Board of Directors Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala advised Ghana on the importance of building transparency and accountability mechanisms into the DNA of its fledgling oil industry. Speaking

Over the past few years, so many apps have popped up that there are thousands of jokes about it. In the development space, many of these apps are filling different vacuums. Some provide information that has the potential to make development more transparent, others facilitiate feedback loops where they wouldn’t have existed before, or provide information that allows citizens to hold elected officials accountable.

Last week, I answered frequently asked questions about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – what they are, why they’re important, and what we want to see in the next round. This week, I want to focus on how the MDGs have sharpened efforts and accelerated progress toward meeting some of the world’s biggest development challenges.

This week, Malawi’s Presidential jet was put on the auction block. President Joyce Banda is selling the $13.3 million (£8.5 million) jet to pay for essential services for her country’s poorest people, and help mitigate the currency devaluation her country is suffering. Originally purchased by then-President Mutharika in 2009, who claimed the jet would be

View the rest of this infographic here.  Today, the International Budget Partnership (IBP) – ONE’s key partner for efforts to promote open and transparent budgets in developing countries – released their 2012 Open Budget Survey. The 2012 Survey assesses 100 countries on 125 questions; 95 about the availability to the public of documents related to

This year, ONE partnered with Publish What You Fund for their 2012 Aid Transparency Index launches in Washington, D.C., and Brussels, Belgium. The 2012 Aid Transparency Index is the premier ranking of donors based on the information they make public about their development programs (and what they don’t). The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) won top honors, earning the No. 1 spot in the 2012 Index, with a score of 91 out of 100.