Open Access and the World Bank:data, research and publications

MIRJANA POPOVIĆThe World Bank

Open Development

What, Why and How

Open About What We

Know(Data,

Research and Knowledge)

Open About What We Do (Operations, Finances and

Results)

Open About How We Work (Partnerships for Openness)

Open Government

(Transparency,

Accountability)

What is Open Development?

Why: A New Social Contract

Connected globe Greater

aid scrutiny

Wisdom of the crowd

Engaged civil

society

Freedom of

information

Multi-polar world

AI Policy: Everything Available

www.worldbank.org/wbaccess

The Response (July 2010 – December 2011)

• 24,000 new documents disclosed to the public on the Documents and Reports website

• Users viewed more than 6.8 million pages and downloaded 1.3 million documents

• 1.6 million visits to the Documents and Reports website

• 1,060 public information requests were made to the Bank (89.6% of the requests received were fulfilled)

• 76 million visits to the Open Data website*

• 75,000 visits to the Open Finances website**

* April 2010 – September 2012, ** July 2011 – April 2012

Open Data

•data freely available

Open

•data easy to use and re-use

Accessible

•data easy to find

Searchable

What is Open Data?

Everything changed in April 2010

Before… After…

Subscriptions Free!

Custom query tool

New website, downloads, API

Restrictions on use Minimal restrictions on use

English +Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese

Not searchable Searchable

Scattered datasets Data catalog

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.

It’s data that is legally open

You can use it freely

You can re-use it freely

You can redistribute it freely

Use it for commercial and non-commercial

purposesIt may require that you attribute the publisher when the data

is used. All of the above should be clear in a usage license or terms of use

Anybody can take your data, repackage & recombine it and sell it.

Open Data: Legally Open

HOW TO FIND DATA

data.worldbank.org

In five languages

English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese

Data By Country & Region

Data By Country

Data By Topic

Data by Indicators

Finances, Mapping & Projects

• Raw data and packaged views of:

– IBRD loans, IDA credits, IDA grants

– IBRD, IDA financial statements

– Financial Intermediary Funds (FiFs)

– Administrative Budget

– Trust Funds

World Bank Finances

https://finances.worldbank.org

#WBFinances

A resource for your questions about the World Bank’s financial activities

As BorrowerHow many World Bank loans and credits for your country?

As Grant RecipientWhich grants does your country get from the Bank?

As DonorWhich Bank-managed trust funds does your country contribute to?

As MemberWhat’s your country’s voting power at the Bank?

Analyze and visualize data with easy-to-use tools

What Data on Serbia

Geo-Mapping for Results: visualizing Bank projects

Projects and Operations

Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)

Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

Creative Commons

Open Knowledge Repository

July 2012

April 2012

April 2012

Links

http://data.worldbank.orghttps://openknowledge.worldbank.orgwww.worldbank.orgwww.worldbank.rs

Thank you. Hvala