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Motivation
• Part of a broader move, including new Access to Information Policy
• Aim is to stimulate use of development data to help solve development problems
• Builds on global Open Data initiatives
Open Development
Open Knowledge
Enable researchers, students, local communities to collect data, measure results, increase knowledge
Open Data
Share tools and essential information on the global economy and Bank’s operations
Open Solutions
Work together to find solutions to development problems
Open Data: Legally Open
You are free to use our data for commercial and
non-commercial purposes at no cost…
Users are encouraged to use the data and share with third parties.
You can use it freely
You can re-use it freely
You can redistribute it freely
We ask for attribution
For commercial and non-commercial purposes
Open Data: Terms of Use
It’s data that’s technically open
You can search for it and find it easily onlineIt’s available in an editable electronic format or an API
Open Data: Technically Open
xls, json, txt, csv, xml, html,
doc, API, odt, ods etc.PDF, images (JPG, GIF,
PNG), other proprietary formats.
New data.worldbank.org
• Data site’s Home, Country, Indicator and Topic pages are available in five corporate languages
• Content for 24 country pages is accessible in 17 local languages
Multi-Lingual
Five languagesEnglish | Español | Français | العربية | 中文
Data By Country & Region
New Country Pages
Country Page Localization
Data By Topic
Data By Topic
Data by Topic
Data by Indicators
See the data
Access Metadata
Chart an indicator
Map an indicator by points
Map an indicator by shade
Embed tables, charts, maps as a widget in a blog or a website
How can you use this?
Justin Lin using Open Data when communicating: http://bit.ly/w6kWv3
Easy to share via social media
Data catalog
• One-stop listing of sources
• Download entire dataset, access query tool
• Global, regional, specialized datasets
• Search based on synonyms and acronyms
– 160 datasets included in DataBank, 9000+ indicators
– 80+ datasets accessible through an API 6000+ indicators
Databases in API format
Build for re-use
microdata.worldbank.org
Accessing Questionnaires
Documentation
Documentation
Quick data results through search
External applications use World Bank data
New DataBank Quicker and simpler access to data
Secured user login for saving and sharing
Widgets for blogs and sites
Social Media Integration
iPad compatibility
English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic
Create custom queries
Save and share reports, charts, maps
Enhanced visualizations
Data Portals
Use of Tableau for Dashboards
Other products and tools
Central location for data books, CDs, visualization tools,mobile applications
DataFinder 4.0mobile apps for iPad/iPhone and Android
Analytical Tools
PovcalNETanalyze poverty data
using different poverty lines and for
different country aggregates
Adeptautomate and
standardize the production of
analytical reports using survey datasets
wbopendatadirect access to latest version of the Bank’s data
through the Stata interface
Data support
Contact us
Engaged with users
Link to social media
Widgets for blog posts and sites
Respond to feedback