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Publish What You Fund’s 2014 Aid Transparency Index Launch ... Wednesday, October 8, 2014 ... Washington DC

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Publish What You Fund’s 2014 Aid Transparency Index Launch Keynote Speaker Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Minister of Finance, Nigeria Panelists Ambassador Deborah Birx, Global AIDS Coordinator Haoliang Xu, United Nations Assistant Secretary General and UNDP Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Dalitso Kubalasa, Executive Director, Malawi Economic Justice Network Rachel Rank, Director, Publish What You Fund Moderator Owen Barder, Senior Fellow and Director for Europe, Center for Global Development Date & Time Wednesday, October 8, 2014 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. EST Location Center for Global Development Fifth Floor 2055 L St, NW Washington, District of Columbia 20036 The Aid Transparency Index (ATI) is the only global measure of aid transparency in the world’s leading aid organizations. The world’s largest donors promised to fully implement a common standard for publishing aid information – the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) – by December 2015. This year’s ATI comes at a critical time in the push for open data. The findings will tell us which donors are on- or off-track as we approach the agreed deadline. With just over a year to go, the clock is ticking. The global launch event will present the latest ATI findings, following a keynote address by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian Minister of Finance. After this, there will be a high-level panel discussion with global representatives from the transparency and development sector. After the formal agenda, we will host an interactive session to explore innovative aid data analysis portals that illustrate the power of open information. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., light breakfast will be available. This event will be live-streamed. Data session demonstrations will be held by: Publish What You Fund, AidData, Development Initiatives, Foreign Assistance Dashboard, InterAction, NGO Aid Map, MCC, PEPFAR, SIDA, UNDP and World Bank Open Aid Partnership. RSVP