New Design and Public Data
I’ve decided to usher in 2012 with a blog redesign. I won’t be regularly writing on the blog until I am back in Washington around September, but I’m still really happy with the new design. Aside from looking pretty, I now have the space to post some of the data that I’ve been collecting over the last nine months.
The new data section of the webpage contains election information, government budget documents, and reports on government spending and various aid projects in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi. I’ll be adding more documents from each country, as well as documents from Zambia, over the coming months. Despite being technically public and free to access in each country, I found many government documents quite difficult to access. While I’ve greatly enjoyed my field research, my hope is that the next researcher doing this kind of work won’t have to travel just to get some basic information on foreign aid and government spending.
Happy new year!
