1. Geo-Enabling International Development Capacity is the Barrier to Transparency Stephen Ansari Blue Raster LLC @sansari22 sansari@blueraster.com

2. Why not Budget Transparency? The story of two countries with controversial record on budget transparency: Kenya and Moldova Capacity, not political resistance to openness.

3. BOOST initiative Once those barriers to data collection were removed through the BOOST initiative,the two governments have rapidly warmed up to the idea of making all this data public. As a result, they became almost overnight two of the most transparent countries in the world.

4. Moldova Kenya Peru

5. www.opendata.go.ke Kenya Open Data Initiative - July 7th

6. Showing flow of Domestic Spending

7. Spending and Expenditures Per Capita

8. Comparing Spending over Time

9. Many Indicators and other Comparators

10. Explore data beyond geography

11. Sorting, Filtering, Pivot Tables

12. Export Results into Table

13. What is the Success Story? BOOST is: Repeatable Useable Timely Flexible Comprehensive Effective Transparent

14. …and it is spreading Latvia Poland Moldova Romania Bulgaria Azerbaijan El Salvador Uganda Kenya Peru

15. Geo-Enabling International Development Capacity is the Barrier to Transparency Stephen Ansari Blue Raster LLC @sansari22 sansari@blueraster.com Massimo Mastruzzi World Bank Institute kenya.wb-boost.org mmastruzzi@worldbank.org