Anti-Corruption Summit scorecard: Open Data winners and losers
June 17, 2016
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May 12, 2016
Today, 14 of the 42 governments at the London Anti Corruption Summit recognised the importance of open data to fight corruption in public procurement by agreeingRead more
November 17, 2014
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) lays out a common format for governments to use when publishing contracting data and sets out to shine a light on how trillions of dollars of public money are spent.
Corruption adds an estimated $2.3 trillion to the cost of government contracts every year. This new standard is a big step forward in the fight to eliminate fraud and waste in public procurement, enabling contracts to be published online in a transparent, consistent and user-friendly format so that anyone can monitor them.Anne Jellema, Web Foundation CEO