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OpenAid Ledger makes aid-data revisions visible

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A public ledger that tracks changes to aid datasets published in the IATI Registry, with dated entries, publisher records, and links to data and an API.

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For: Aid-data researchers, watchdogs, and journalists
Worth noticing: Its UNICEF examples compare file hashes and surface transaction restatements, date shifts, budget revisions, and removals.

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The page says it polls 13,946 IATI Registry datasets daily and retains successive file versions, then presents detected changes in a dated register. Its examples compare UNICEF project records across file hashes, including transaction totals restated with reporting dates shifted from July 31 to August 31; other entries flag budget revisions and removed transactions. The homepage reports 2,116 publishers and 15.5 GB of versions, figures not independently verified by the supplied extract.

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