Promoting Government Transparency and Empowering Citizens through Open Data | CIPE Development Blog

"In an effort to expand access to information globally, CIPE is pursuing new opportunities to advocate for open data. In countries throughout the world, CIPE is identifying local partners to work with on building online platforms that present governments’ economic data in formats that are accessible and understandable to private-sector stakeholders and civic activists. Moreover, CIPE staff are searching for opportunities to promote data journalism as an innovative means to hold governments around the globe accountable to their electorates. CIPE hopes to raise awareness of the positive impact open data has on liberal democracies. These emerging projects represent a continuation of CIPE’s history of raising the voices of activists who call for market-oriented reforms and greater transparency and accountability from their governments."