Aid Transparency on Facebook and Linkedin

Information is the hard currency of politics. Therefore transparency in development cooperation is not just about technical changes in data bases. Because access to information is highly political, OpenAid is convinced that public awareness and public pressure is necessary to promote aid transparency. In order to reach out to the wider community of development practitioners we have therefore decided to create an OpenAid page on Facebook and an Aid Transparency Forum on Linkedin. The objective of the Linkedin Forum is to share information about the aid transparency agenda, particularly about the International Aid Transparency Initiative. On the Facebook page we hope to inform about aid transparency in governmental and non-governmental aid and to address the wider issue of social accountability: enabling citizens at the project level to hold project managers, donors and government representatives to account. Please visit us at Facebook and Linkedin and help us spread the word.