This was originally posted on ONE’s Africa blog. ONE has a team in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city, where the UN’s High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is meeting this week. Building where the High Level Panel is taking place in Monrovia. This Panel, co-chaired by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian

Have you heard of BTAP, The Global Movement for Budget Transparency, Accountability and Participation? They’re a young, vibrant movement of activists and organizations who work together to increase budget transparency, allowing for citizens to participate in budgetary processes and hold their governments to account for how they are spending national finances. This week, BTAP launched

I’m a big fan of maps. They help me to work out how to get from where I am to where I want to be. They help me to find the things that I need. They help me to make arrangements to meet up with friends. They help me to make the best use of

I spent yesterday at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., with hundreds of Open Data and Open Government experts and enthusiasts. Dr. Jim Kim, the newly minted president of the World Bank, kicked off the first day of the second International Open Government Data Conference (IOGDC) with a stirring speech about the universality of

Lauren Pfeifer from ONE’s policy team reports on Transparency Camp, a 2-day “un-conference” on open data and open government hosted by the Sunlight Foundation. Instead of writing a regular blog post, she compiled an interactive social media story using tweets, photos and Facebook updates from the web. Scroll through to read her story. As part