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 …
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Saying no to silos: The CoST and OGP example of joining up for better and open infrastructure
By Alfredo Cantero, CoST Board Member and President of the Honduras Transparency Commission, Government of Honduras. Next week CoST will join thousands of open government advocates at the 6th OGP …
The CoST open data journey: From the paper piles to a systematic tool for scalable disclosure
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 …
Quality Infrastructure Investment given priority for 2019 by C20
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 …
The CoST disclosure platform: bringing positive change to citizen-based monitoring
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 …
Digging deep into CoST Assurance: the data, key issues and promoting sector reforms
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 …