Why having a computer is not enough-Does the World Bank use aid transparency to avoid tough debates on internal accountability?
I am little bit surprised that I have not come across more critical writing on the recent World Bank-IMF spring meeting that took place in Washington, DC last week. However I did notice some engagement in the preliminary official civil society policy forum , most notably Jennifer Lentfer’s engagement . The other piece was a contribution by Huff Post blogger Rebecca Harris ‘ Knowledge Is Power: Transparency and ParticipationWill Be the Drivers of Effective Development ’ which openly promotes the official World Bank discourse about a changing, more transparent and accountable Bank. If this is how large aid organisations will interpret the ‘OpenAid’ discourse, it will stay at the level of ‘data CSR’ without having an impact on actual organisational accountability or transparency (the Swedish, quite literally, are a visible proof how the access to aid data can be made easy and approachable even for non-academic experts on this topic). There are two very interesting points to point out wi