Unlocking the Potential of Aid Information

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Recommendation 1 – Aid information should be legally open. The standard should require that information is published under terms which allow reuse for any purpose (including commercial). In particular material should be published under a license or legal tool that is compliant with the Open Knowledge Definition, such as a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license for content or the Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) or CC0 for data.

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Recommendation 2 – Aid information should be technically open. The standard should require that raw data is made available in bulk with any relevant schema information. Material should be published in a format (i) which is machine readable and (ii) for which the specification is publicly available and freely usable. For example, text should be made available in HTML or XML and data should be made available in CSV or XML.

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Recommendation 3 – Aid information should be easily findable. The standard should require that aid organisations add their knowledge assets to a registry with some basic metadata describing the information.

Summary of Recommendations

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