CoST Executive Director Petter Matthews is the International Chair of the C20 Infrastructure Working Group (IWG) in 2019. In this blog, which coincides with the G20 Leaders Summit in Osaka, he compares the positions of the C20 and G20 IWGs in relation to the recently published G20 Quality Infrastructure Investment Principles. * The name of
CoST recently participated in the sixth Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit to share its experience on citizenship engagement. In this blog, Olive Kabatwairwe, CoST Africa Regional Manager and CoST Uganda Manager reflects on the lessons shared and dives deeper into the impact of our work in Uganda. Olive Kabatwairwe at OGP Summit 2019
CoST is excited to launch the Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standard (OC4IDS) with our partners at the Open Contracting Partnership. This culminates a long journey for CoST in moving from the cumbersome process of extracting paper-based documents from public procuring entities to today providing a systematic tool for disclosing user friendly open data at
CoST’s Executive Director Petter Matthews was recently appointed International Chair of the Civil Society 20 (C20) Infrastructure Working Group (IWG). In this blog, he reports from a recent ‘C20 Face-To-Face Meeting’ in Tokyo, which was aimed at agreeing the C20 priorities for 2019. The Government of Japan (GoJ) is using its Presidency of the G20
Today is Open Data Day 2019, an opportunity for CoST and other open data advocates to shine a light on the benefits of data transparency and encourage its accessibility to all. In this blog, Maria da Graça Prado of CoST looks at the way in which innovative online data platforms are helping CoST members to enhance
By John Hawkins. This week you may have read how our CoST programmes in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala and, today, in Uganda have used data disclosed from 72 infrastructure projects and turned it into compelling information using the CoST assurance process. By the end of 2018, 12 Assurance reports will have been published from
