Making data about the use of public resources more widely available has the potential to support a better process for allocating those resources, in which citizens’ priorities are center-stage. However, despite substantial investments in making fiscal data open more open, there are serious question marks about the extent to which greater fiscal transparency has really helped citizens or governments to follow the money and shape the use of public resources. Transparency does not automatically translate into greater accountability for the use of public resources, or greater effectiveness in addressing problems that people experience relating to public service delivery; poorly trained teachers, a lack of medicines, limited access to drinking water, and crumbling infrastructure. Data often fails to meet users’ needs, users lack the capacity to use data, and transparency initiatives are at times too top down, and insufficiently focused on supporting efforts to address particular service delivery problems.