The Aid Revolution begins with XML / The Aid Revolution Begins Here

"After two years of negotiating, the 18 donors of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) agreed on February 9th the final details of a new global standard for publishing aid information. This format makes aid information internationally comparable, and so more information will now be better information....With this format it will now be possible to build a bigger picture of aid activities which means that donors and recipients can coordinate their plans and complement the activities of others, reducing duplication and waste. Publish What You Fund is currently working with the Open Knowledge Foundation to produce a visualisation of Uganda’s domestic budget with aid mapped onto it. This will show the real power of providing more information about aid flows in a standard format...."