From OpenDevelopment

There are surely hundreds of Development related initiatives that embrace either fully or to some extent the ideas, approaches, methods and the culture of "open source".

Below is a list of such projects, initiatives, movement, and alike. Please add to the list and if it seems that the list needs breaking into categories or what not, please feel free to do what is needed to make it better. If editing this page seems too much, please add a comment to the discussion page about what you think could be done to make the list better.

Contents 1 General (or uncategorized) 2 Sustainable development focused 3 Institutions with Open initiatives 3.1 Open government 4 Enabling technologies, standards, etc 5 Initiatives promoting accountability, openness, participation, etc 6 See also

General (or uncategorized)

• AidData - tracking development finance (http://aiddata.org)

• CrisisCommons (http://CrisisCommons.org)
• OpenStreetMap (http://osm.org)

• OneResponse (http://OneResponse.info)
• ReliefWeb (http://RefliefWeb.int)
• AidInfo (http://AidInfo.org)

Sustainable development focused

• wp:Appropedia (http://Appropedia.org)

• Ushahidi (http://ushahidi.com). Mentions: [1],
• Sahana (http://sahana.com)

Institutions with Open initiatives

• World Bank Open Data initative (http://data.worldbank.org)
• USAID's global Development Commons initiative (presentation)
  • Forum One Communication's Global Development Commons wiki (http://developmentcommons.org)

Open government

• White House Open Government Initiative (http://whitehouse.gov/open)
• ... hundreds of others in various countries' national, state and local levels...

Enabling technologies, standards, etc

... that fuel Open in development

• wp:Creative Commons (http://CreativeCommons.org)

Initiatives promoting accountability, openness, participation, etc

• International Non-Governmental Organisations Accountability Charter (INGO Charter) (http://INGOaccountabilitycharter.org - signatories
  • Action Aid International (http://actionaid.org)
  • Amnesty International (http://amnesty.org)
  • CBM International (http://cbm.org)
  • CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation (http://civicus.org)
  • Consumers International (http://consumersinternational.org)
  • Cordaid (http://cordaid.nl)
  • Earthrights International (http://earthrights.org)
  • European Environmental Bureau (http://eeb.org)
  • International Council for Adult Education (http://icae.org.uy)
  • Save the Children International (http://savethechildren.org)
  • Instituto del tercer Mundo (ITeM) (http://item.org.uy)
  • Greenpeace International (http://greenpeace.org/international)
  • Oxfam International (http://oxfam.org)
  • Panos Network (http://panos.org)
  • Plan International (http://planinternational.org)
  • Transparency International (http://transparency.org)
  • World Vision International (http://wvi.org)
  • World YWCA (http://worldywca.org)

See also

• List of insightful development blogs (yes, that's a subjective definition)