What does development aid provided by Finland look like? - Winners of the visualisation competition selected

In September, at the Open Knowledge Festival, the biggest international open knowledge event, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs launched a competition on visualising Finnish aid statistics.

The aim was to find new, innovative ways to demonstrate how and where Finnish tax-payers' money is used in development cooperation, thus making data on development cooperation easier to understand.

The three best entries to the competition have now been selected. These entries are:

• Phuoc Tran Minh
• Sharad Adhikari
• Flo Apps Oy

The selection criteria used included clarity, informative content and usability of the visualisation. Only entries made by a person or a group living in Finland were taken under evaluation.

See also data on division of aid provided to long-term development partners at:

• Disbursements for Development Cooperation 2006-2011

Announcement on the competition:

• Competition on visualising Finnish aid statistics