Anti-Corruption Summit scorecard: Open Data winners and losers
June 17, 2016
Governments worldwide spend more than $9.5 trillion annually on contracts, but little information about how this money is spent is publicly available. The Open Contracting Data Standard aims to fight corruption, improve service delivery, and enhance market efficiency, by enabling public contract data to be easily accessed and compared across countries, regions and industries.
Visit project siteNote: This link goes to an external microsite.Governments worldwide spend more than $9.5 trillion annually on contracts, but little information about how this money is spent is publicly available. The Open Contracting Data Standard aims to fight corruption, improve service delivery, and enhance market efficiency, by enabling public contract data to be easily accessed and compared across countries, regions and industries.
Visit project siteNote: This link goes to an external microsite.June 17, 2016
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