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February 26, 2015

Launching a Geospatial Data Revolution

There are three major challenges for the development community in launching a Geospatial Data Revolution.

February 24, 2015

Liberating 35 Years of USAID Experience

To “liberate” DEC information, AidData is piloting a new dataset of machine-readable data to provide new levels of access for researchers, data scientists, and practitioners to mine, analyze, and create “new” knowledge from old lessons.

February 18, 2015

Staging a Geospatial Data Revolution

Before the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are finalized, it’s critical to take stock of what we have – and have not – accomplished before we double down on the next fifteen years.

December 2, 2013

Geocoding: A Route to Deeper Transparency for the African Development Bank

Being able to understand which projects exist, where gaps are, and who is working on what to address these gaps, will help all parties make more informed choices.

September 17, 2013

Assessing Vulnerability: The Technology Behind the New CCAPS Climate Change Dashboard

The new climate dashboard – released by the Robert S. Strauss Center and Development Gateway – enables researchers to more easily explore and analyze climate security risks and insecurities across Africa.

February 27, 2013

CCAPS Dashboard Visualizes Conflict Trends in Real Time

The CCAPS conflict dashboard combines the Social Conflict in Africa Dataset (SCAD) and the Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset (ACLED).

December 18, 2012

Does open data make development more accountable? The case of Colombia

Development Gateway and Transparencia por Colombia have visually mapped data on development projects, transparency at the local level and poverty rates in Colombia to start to unravel a policy conundrum.

April 19, 2012

Where are donors working in Malawi? A new dataset sheds light

The dataset includes sub-national geocodes for approximately 550 aid projects undertaken in Malawi since 2000, representing nearly $5.3 billion in total commitments or roughly 80% of all aid reported to the Ministry of Finance during that time.

August 15, 2011

AfDB geocoded dataset now publicly available

The data include more than $10 billion in AfDB Group funding to 43 African countries.

April 14, 2011

Bangladesh: Mapping climate change and food security

Mapping results in Bangladesh shows how swiftly Bank support has been distributed to reach people in need, and in locations where impact is greatest.

August 17, 2010

Donor Coordination in Kenya and Mozambique

Geo-referencing development projects is one very promising method that could facilitate greater coordination and dialogue between policymakers, development practitioners, researchers, NGOs, recipient governments, and citizens.

Methodology

The UCDP and AidData Codebook on Georeferencing Aid, Version 1.1

Daniel Strandow, Michael Findley, Daniel Nielson, Josh Powell

2011-01-01