NITA-U, Uganda’s national ICT authority, announced plans to enable a cloud server in the country as the center point for storing all government data. The Government sees this as the first step towards opening up its data to citizens. Hopefully Uganda’s “move to the cloud” will lead to similar results as Kenya’s openData initiative, and encourage users to push the limits of what the data can and tell us.
The Sahel Food Crisis dashboard is a new collaborative data and map sharing initiative to bring together organizations focused on the mounting food crisis in western Africa. With the interactive dashboard, users can mashup various data (such as malnutrition rates, food security conditions, or population density) to get a better understanding of the crisis. More on the dashboard, the data, and underlying TileMill technology can be found at the PBS Idea Lab.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced the appointments on the panel looking at the post-2015 development agenda.
The 26-member panel has been asked to create a “bold yet practical” agenda for development efforts
following the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. Beyond2015, an international civil society campaign focused on
advancing the discussions on the post-2015 agenda, largely supports the
Secretary-General’s appoints, but notes the “failure to explicitly acknowledgethe role of people living in poverty” in shaping the agenda. What do you think? The UN is encouraging citizens to
have their say at the World We Want portal.
Development Gateway’s Director of
Operations, Nancy Choi, is featured
on the Huffington Post to discuss girls’ empowerment
through sports, and U.S. Sectary of State Hillary Clinton’s call to close the
gender data gap. Choi
argues that expanding efforts like Mapping for Results are
key to closing the broken feedback loop as to whether development impacts are taking place. Meanwhile, USAID also
takes a look at the impact of sports on development.
Featured dataset: On the AidData Research Datasets page, you can access the History of U.S. Aid and Reimbursements to Pakistan
dataset from the Center for Global Development. It
contains budget level information on U.S. military and economic assistance to
Pakistan from 1948 to 2010. Earlier this week, CGD announced its new study, “More Money, More Problems”
to evaluate U.S. development strategy in Pakistan.
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