Making EITI data open and accessible
The 2016 EITI Standard requires that EITI Reports are “comprehensible, actively promoted, publicly accessible, and contribute to public debate”. Publishing in an open data format breaks down the barriers to accessing information locked in PDF format. Data is compiled into a standard format called “EITI Summary Data”, which powers data driven webpages, visualisations and data portals. The data covers 300 plus EITI country years and the raw excel files are available to download from a Google Drive repository.
26 EITI countries have adopted an open data policy on the access, release and re-use of EITI Data.