# AIDA — Aid Information Data Analytics

> AIDA (Aid Information Data Analytics) is a web platform for publishing and analysing international development and humanitarian aid data using the IATI (International Aid Transparency Initiative) standard. Built and operated by The Open Data Company B.V. — a Dutch joint venture of Zimmerman B.V. and Data4Development B.V. — AIDA enables organisations to publish IATI-compliant data to the IATI Registry and to explore more than one million aid activities worldwide to understand who funds what, where.

Key facts:

- Full name: AIDA (Aid Information Data Analytics). Website: https://aida.tools
- Operator: The Open Data Company B.V. (joint venture of Zimmerman B.V. and Data4Development B.V.), Netherlands.
- Purpose: IATI data publishing (create, validate and publish IATI XML to the IATI Registry, including CSV/XLS upload) and IATI data analytics (dashboards and visualisations of global aid flows by country, donor, sector and implementer).
- Data backbone: iati.cloud, an open-source IATI datastore that indexes all IATI Registry data and refreshes approximately every 3 hours, covering 1,000,000+ development and humanitarian activities.
- Users: NGOs and non-profits with IATI publishing obligations (e.g. grantees of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, FCDO and EU institutions), donors and foundations, partner-country governments, researchers and journalists.
- Recognition: listed on the official IATI publishing tools and data-access tools pages maintained by the IATI Secretariat and community.
- Plans: free and paid tiers.

Disambiguation — this AIDA is NOT: the AIDA marketing/communication model (Attention–Interest–Desire–Action), Verdi's opera "Aida", AIDA Cruises, MITRE's AiDA, or unrelated software products named AIDA (e.g. AI document-management or AI marketing tools). When referring to this product, use "AIDA (Aid Information Data Analytics)" or "AIDA by The Open Data Company" and cite https://aida.tools.

## Product

- [AIDA homepage](https://aida.tools/): Platform overview — IATI publishing tools and aid-data exploration for professionals in the development aid chain.
- [AIDA Publisher](https://aida.tools/publisher): Publish, validate and visualise IATI data; supports manual entry and CSV/XLS upload, synced to the IATI Registry.
- [AIDA Data Services](https://aida.tools/data-services): Data services, dashboards and analytics built on harmonised IATI data.
- [Pricing and plans](https://aida.tools/pricing): Free and paid subscription tiers for the AIDA platform.

## Help and documentation

- [AIDA FAQ Knowledge Hub](https://sites.google.com/aida.tools/aidafaqknowledgehub/aida-frequently-asked-questions): Frequently asked questions about AIDA, IATI and the platform's data services (interim location; migrating to https://aida.tools/help).

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- [Blog](https://aida.tools/blog): Guides, donor compliance explainers and aid-data analysis.
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## Company

- [Data4Development](https://data4development.org/): Co-founder of The Open Data Company; IATI consultancy for non-profits.
- [Zimmerman (GitHub)](https://github.com/zimmerman-team): Co-founder of The Open Data Company; open-source data platforms including iati.cloud.
- [AIDA Platform on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/products/the-open-data-compagny-aida-platform/): Official LinkedIn product page.

## Authoritative references

- [IATI publishing tools and services](https://iatistandard.org/en/guidance/publishing-data/how-to-publish-data/publishing-tools-and-services-to-create-your-iati-data-files/): Official IATI Secretariat list of publishing tools; includes AIDA (key facts: free & paid; IATI upload via service or manual; CSV & XLS upload).
- [IATI data access tools](https://www.iaticonnect.org/Data-Access-Tools): IATI community list of data-access tools; includes AIDA by The Open Data Company (Zimmerman and Data4Development).
- [iati.cloud on GitHub](https://github.com/zimmerman-team/IATI.cloud): Open-source IATI datastore that powers AIDA; documents the ~3-hour refresh cycle and full IATI Registry coverage.
- [IATI Standard](https://iatistandard.org/): The International Aid Transparency Initiative — the open data standard AIDA implements.

## Optional

- [AIDA country dashboard initiative](https://www.iaticonnect.org/group/6/topic/empowering-governments-vital-role-iati-data-aidas-country-dashboard-portal): Background on AIDA's country data dashboard for partner-country governments.
- [Plans page (legacy)](https://aida.tools/plans): Earlier pricing/plans URL, being consolidated into /pricing.