"The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many."
John Naisbitt, researcher and author on Megatrends
Zur Förderung der Transparenz und der Wirksamkeit in der Entwicklungshilfe haben sich eine Reihe großer Geldgeber darauf geeinigt, Informationen über die Entwicklungshilfe zeitnah, detailliert und leicht zugänglich zu veröffentlichen. Ergebnis dieser Selbstverpflichtung ist die International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Seit 2008 entwickeln die Unterzeichner von IATI Informationsstandards zur Entwicklungshilfe, gemeinsame Definitionen und technische Standards. Leider gibt es außer auf der IATI website kaum Informationen zu diesem Prozess. Vor allem auf den Webseiten der IATI Unterzeichner sind keine Referenzen zu dieser wichtigen Initiative zu finden.
Whistleblowing is one of several aspects of what our initiative Public Online Monitoring is about. Read more »
The international aid transparency movement has been inspired by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which pioneerd the use of international reporting standards to fight corruption. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative was announced by Tony Blair at the 2002 Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, and held it first plenary conference in 2003. The purpose of EITI is to increase transparency on payments by companies to governments and on natural ressource government revenues through a set of reporting guidelines. Read more »
The Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) is a network of civil society organisations monitoring the transparency of the Regional Development Banks, the World Bank, the International Monitary Fund and the European Investment Bank. Read more »
Did you know that the German government has an "e-government strategy" ... ?
The availability of powerful information technology, an increasing demand for transparent governance have led to impressive advances of e-government and e-participation in the recent years. OpenAid is applying these developments to development cooperation. While transparency is being discussed internationally as an approach to improve aid effectiveness, this issue commands very little attention in the German development community. The official discussion in Germany at the Government level is more dominated by e-government, understood as the availability of online administrative services to the public.
In Germany e-Government has been recognised as an important government task by the German Government since 2000. Read more »
OpenAid is promoting the idea of letting local beneficiaires and stakeholders of development projects participate in the development policy debate regarding their region. This element of our proposed Public Online Monitoring initiative is a form of direct democracy and we feel part of the international movement for direct democracy. Read more »
Public Online Monitoring has four key elements:
- Detailed online information about individual development projects
- Sector specific online guidance for civil society stakeholders
- Online forum for stakeholders to meet, exchange information, voice concerns, defend interests, and to discuss policy
- Integration of online monitoring to off-line communication: radio, newspapers, community meetings
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