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Cross-Border Philanthropy Grows Up as U.S. Treasury and IRS Rules Reduce Barriers to International Philanthropy

guidestarinternational wrote 7 months ago: By Keisha Taylor Giving overseas can be tedious and costly given the complexity of a vast and divers … more →

Tags: access to information, Accountability, Aid Effectiveness, Philanthropy, Transparency

Guardian Reports on TechSoup Global/Guardian Charity Data Seminar1 comment

guidestarinternational wrote 10 months ago: Big data, open data, charity reporting and crowdsourcing were the order of the day at the recent Tra … more →

Tags: access to information, Accountability, Data Visualisation, Data Visualization, Philanthropy, Transparency, "big data", Charity reporting, open data

International Transparency Initiative makes world giving open, shareable, standardized, transparent

guidestarinternational wrote 1 year ago: By Keisha Taylor This was originally posted on the TechSoup Global blog ‘The open data revolution ha … more →

Tags: Aid Effectiveness, Philanthropy, CSO reporting, Transparency, Accountability, access to information, Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, Iati

New Portal to Promote US Giving to Indian NGOs

guidestarinternational wrote 1 year ago: Consul General Peter Haas and others listening to GuideStar India CEO, Pushpa Aman Singh speaking at … more →

Tags: Aid Effectiveness, Philanthropy, CSO reporting, Transparency, Accountability, access to information, ephilanthropy, GuideStar, India

Projects we are watching: OpenDataPhilly

guidestarinternational wrote 1 year ago: by Keisha Taylor This was originally posted on the TechSoup Global Blog Nonprofit organisations and … more →

Tags: access to information, NGOs, open data, Nonprofits, open government data

Linking Art, Technology, and Data for Online Communications

guidestarinternational wrote 1 year ago: A host of great speakers were in attendance at the event Public 2.0: Culture, Creativity and Audienc … more →

Tags: Data Visualisation, access to information, Civil Society Organisations, Data Mapping

A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit (London)1 comment

guidestarinternational wrote 1 year ago: by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager – Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global Guardian’s ACTIVA … more →

Tags: access to information, CSO reporting, Data Visualisation, Data Visualization, ICT for Development, data journalism, Guardian

Enter to Win the European Open Data Challenge

guidestarinternational wrote 2 years ago: This was first posted on the NetSquared blog Are you interested in using open data for good in Europ … more →

Tags: access to information, Civil Society, CSO reporting, Data Visualisation, ICT for Development, Apps, Europe, open data

Where, Why and When Should a CSO report?

guidestarinternational wrote 2 years ago: By Keisha Taylor CSOs usually report to government regulatory bodies and intergovernmental donors an … more →

Tags: CSO reporting, Transparency, access to information, Freedom of Information

What Should a CSO Report and How Should They Report?

guidestarinternational wrote 2 years ago: What an organisation chooses to say about their work sometimes differs from what is said in private … more →

Tags: Philanthropy, CSO reporting, Transparency, Accountability, access to information

Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

guidestarinternational wrote 2 years ago: This was originally posted on the NetSquared Blog by Amy Sample Ward. You can read the original post … more →

Tags: access to information, Linked Data, open data

Is proactive transparency the future of the right to information?1 comment

guidestarinternational wrote 2 years ago: Helen Darbishire wrote an excellent paper, commissioned by the World Bank Institute titled Proactive … more →

Tags: access to information, Accountability, Transparency, Freedom of Information laws, proactive disclosure, proactive transparency, Right to Information, World Bank Institute

A Gubernatorial Debate Without Mention of Social Issues

MaryTreacy wrote 2 years ago: “Don’t worry, they’ll just build a new building,” my friend assured me.  I was entering a much-vaunt … more →

Tags: Twin Cities, MN, Saint Paul, open government, Politics in Minnesota, access to information, Minnesota gubernatorial debate, MN Gubernatorial Debate, Nina Rothchild, Thomas Jefferson

GuideStar Israel launched!

guidestarinternational wrote 2 years ago: JERUSALEM (3rd August 2010) GuideStar Israel (www.guidestar.org.il), an online database aimed at mak … more →

Tags: Aid Effectiveness, Philanthropy, Transparency, Accountability, access to information, Israel, GuideStar Israel, nptech, Ministry of Justice

UK Government’s new watchwords: Transparency, Accountability, Responsibility, Fairness and Empowerment2 comments

guidestarinternational wrote 2 years ago: The UK has signalled a clear shift towards full and open disclosure of information on aid by all don … more →

Tags: Aid Effectiveness, Transparency, Accountability, DfID, uk aid

UK Government launches free data site

guidestarinternational wrote 3 years ago: The UK Government has just launched a data site with the help of Tim Berners Lee (Listen to a him sp … more →

Tags: access to information, Accountability, Data Visualisation, ICT for Development, Charities, Data, Government, UK


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