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Development Gateway (DG), formerly known as the Development Gateway Foundation, is an international non-profit organization that works in the field of information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D). It seeks to improve aid transparency and governance through technical and advisory solutions. The organization partners with national governments, development agencies, non-governmental and private organizations, and foundations.

DG was created in 1999 by then-president of the World Bank James Wolfensohn. In 2001 DG became an independent 501(c)3 organization, and is supported by project-specific funding from a number of bilateral and multilateral development agencies and private foundations.

Aid Management Program
The Aid Management Program (AMP) combines online software with institutional strengthening activities to help developing country governments that receive official development assistance (ODA) build capacity for aid information management. There are two primary components to the program: 1) aid information management systems including the Aid Management Platform and ODAdata and 2) institutional strengthening activities.

The program was first presented at the 2005 High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Paris and has since been implemented in 22 countries with funding from UNDP, the World Bank, and governments. Countries use AMP to monitor the implementation and execution of development aid projects, coordinate development strategies with donors, and produce ODA and budget reports. The system offers an optional interactive mapping module provided by Esri. Development Gateway hosts an annual conference, known as the AMP Best Practices Workshop, to enable governments in the program to exchange experiences and best practices.

=AidData== AidData is a collaborative initiative to make information on development finance and activities more transparent and accessible. AidData is a joint project of the College of William and Mary, Brigham Young University, and Development Gateway, and launched its online platform (www.aiddata.org) in March 2010.

AidData maintains a searchable database of development assistance at www.aidddata.org that include data from 95 donor agencies from 1945 to the present. In addition, the AidData website provides a collection of related resources, including unvetted "raw" datasets on development assistance and other datasets on international development work. The partner institutions behind AidData engaged in research projects on data collection and augmentation through crowdsourcing and other methods as well as more traditional research on aid allocation and effectiveness.

AidData has also worked to geocode development assistance data. Jointly with Uppsala University’s Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), AidData developed a geocoding methodology for aid information, worked with the World Bank on the Mapping for Results initiative, and collaborated with Esri on the Development Loop application.

Zunia
Zunia is an online platform for knowledge exchange and networking among development practitioners. Zunia aggregates publications, posts, and articles from international development organizations, websites, and blogs. Zunia also aggregates job listings in the international development field from other sites. Zunia users can post development-related content, comment on other content, subscribe to custom email alerts, and create or join thematic discussion groups. Zunia replaced dgCommunities, an earlier version of Development Gateway’s knowledge-sharing platform, in 2009.

dgMarket
dgMarket is an online marketplace for government tenders, providing access to tender notices, contract awards, bidding documents, and other procurement information. dgMarket provides access to government tenders in 60 countries and aid-funded tenders in 150 countries. Branded dgMarket Web sites have been launched in Estonia, Belarus, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Israel, Kenya, Mauritania, Mexico, Romania, Rwanda, Spain (Catalonia), Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam, as well as for the Agence Française de Développement and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Country Gateways
The Country Gateways program was one of Development Gateway’s first initiatives and sought to replicate the international Development Gateway model at the country level. With seed funding from Development Gateway, 36 countries – including China, Morocco, Burkina Faso,  Vietnam, and others – have established independent Country Gateway entities. Each of these organizations is loosely modeled after Development Gateway, but each has distinct objectives. Some Country Gateways publish procurement notices for government contracts, databases of development projects, directories of non-governmental organizations, and e-commerce tools. Offline services include consulting and training in ICT.

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 * Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum
 * Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia
 * de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre
 * Fantasy of Flight
 * Fleet Air Arm Museum
 * Imperial War Museum Duxford
 * Irish Air Corps Museum
 * Museum of Australian Army Flying, Oakey, Queensland, Australia
 * Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre, Angus, Scotland
 * Museum of Transport and Technology
 * Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina
 * New England Air Museum
 * North Atlantic Aviation Museum
 * Polish Aviation Museum, Kraków (Cracow), Poland
 * Rolls-Royce Derby Heritage Centre
 * Royal Air Force Museum Cosford
 * Royal Air Force Museum London
 * Science Museum (London)
 * Shuttleworth Collection
 * Auckland War Memorial Museum
 * Wings Museum, West Sussex, England
 * Aviation Heritage Museum (Western Australia)