Technical tools for IATI

Together with our partner Zimmerman & Zimmerman, we have been developing tools that help people to make sense of IATI data. Without clear visualizations and other user-friendly interfaces, open data is at risk of being perceived as just ‘a telephone directory in secret code’, as a Dutch journalist put it. So, what did we do [...]

See it happen – results online

Almost all programs in an IATI set actually consists of several individual smaller projects. Wouldn’t it be great if we could dive into that wealth of detail? Several organizations in the Netherlands are actively working to make this possible. Below, we show project details of one of the activities in the Dutch IATI activity set, [...]

Visualisations

How do you make data meaningful? One way is using visualisations. Here you can explore the Dutch IATI data set in a different way – as a bubble tree. Each bubble is a sector, showing exactly which sectors receive most funding.