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International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)

by IATI

The IATI standard is a framework for publishing information on development cooperation activities in a timely, comprehensive and forward-looking manner. All published data should be structured and comparable

Assessment

  • Open License Yes

  • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

    IATI is an international effort. No jurisdiction per se

  • Stakeholder Participation Yes

    IATI brings together donor and recipient countries, civil society organisations, and other experts in aid information who are committed to working together to increase the transparency and openness of aid.

  • Consensus-Based Governance Yes

    IATI has a GitHub page where the references for the standards rae maintained

  • Extensions Yes

    IATI allows for publishing of additional data that are not covered by the default IATI elements by using an XML namespace to extend the schema

  • Human Readable Yes

    Datasets published on the IATI registry can also be downloaded or previewed in an easy to read CSV table

  • Machine Readable Yes

    All data is published in XML on the IATI registry

  • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No

    Organizations can choose when to publish or re-publish their data

  • Metadata Yes

    IATI has related standards that are associated with the main IATI standard such as The Organisations Standard and The Activity Standard

Tags

dataType
  • schema
  • static
  • XML
language
  • English
providerType
  • non-profit
subject
  • philanthropy
keyword
  • API
  • CKAN
  • GitHub
  • NGO
  • software
  • transparency
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