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2020

Can IATI benefit from XBRL’s experiences?

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xbrl-logo.png Over the last weeks, I started exploring XBRL, the eXtensible Business Reporting Language. Its purpose is “ to improve the accountability and transparency of business performance globally, by providing the open data exchange standard for business reporting.”

iati-logo.png There are clear parallels with IATI, the International Aid Transparency Initiative, the open data exchange standard for development and aid activities I have been working on.

In essence, the data collectors benefit more than the data publishers in both cases: what can we learn?

Around the web, again: interesting events

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Time to get back into the habit of capturing things on my website… First up: my calendar watch list and some events.

I’ve been keeping an “Open Dev” calendar with events related to open development and online civic space (data, standards, ethics, digital rights, and so on). I’m broadening the scope a bit to include more technical events as well. It’s “Rolf’s events watch list” now.