Ben Leo, ONE’s global policy director, has written the article below with Lauren Pfeifer, ONE’s policy associate on the Transparency and Accountability Team. On President Obama’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that called for open, transparent government. Photo credit: The White House The order is based on the principles that openness

Andrew Clarke, Advocacy Manager at Publish What You Fund, writes on the importance of transparency in funding. Yesterday, the OECD produced an XML file containing DAC members’ annual aid flows. The file is a conversion of 2010 and 2011 data from their Creditor Reporting System (CRS) into XML format (computer-readable “mark-up” language that allows programmers to extract and