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Open Data and the World Bank. Open about what we do Open about what we know Open to new engagement Supporting others to be open. Vision is Open Development. Open Data Share tools and essential information on the global economy and Bank’s operations. Open Knowledge - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Open Data and the World Bank
Open about what we doOpen about what we knowOpen to new engagement
Supporting others to be open
Vision is Open Development
Open Knowledge
Enable researchers, students, local communities to collect and share 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
Launched on April 20, 2010
A year of Open Data data.worldbank.orgOver 6 million unique visitors since launch of new multilingual site
Improving knowledge through data access and use
Mapping for ResultsAll projects geo-coded and mapped with development indicators
Improving results, accountability, and local engagement
Apps for Development100 entrants to the first global technology contest of its kind
Improving innovation and creating new users and new impacts
Finances and operationsFirst multilateral to publish to the International Aid Transparency Initiative
Improving transparency
•data freely availableOpen•data easy to use and re-useAccessible
•data easy to findSearchable
What is Open Data?
We went from this
To this…
data.worldbank.org
In five languages
Legally Open
You are free to use our data for commercial and
non-commercial purposes at no cost…
Technically Open
Warm response
Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy White House Chief Technology Officer:
“It’s really fantastic to have the World Bank join -- and now lead -- the global open data movement. It
opens huge new possibilities.”
Open about what we know
A collection of “curated” data
By Country
By Topic
By indicator
By indicator
Microdata from surveys
microdata.worldbank.org
And lots more data…
• Data Catalog: a one-stop listing of data sources
• Download entire datasets
• Over 40 global, regional, specialized datasets
Open about what we do
Visualizing project locations
Data on the Bank’s work
Using international open standards
Tools for open data, research, and analysis
Custom queries
databank.worldbank.org
Mobile apps
• Replicate the calculations to estimate the extent of absolute poverty in the world, including “$1 a day”, and use alternative arameters
• Calculate head count index, poverty gap index, gini coefficient, Lorenz curve
• Uses distributional data derived from household surveys
PovcalNet
iresearch.worldbank.org/povcalnet
1. Select countries and enter parameters
2. Compute indicators
ADePt: from data to report
Inside ADePT:
User Computational interface kernel (Stata)
ADePTUser micro-level data: DHS, LSMS, LFS, …
Print-ready output
• A free web-based platform for collaborative economic simulations
• Hosts a variety of economic models:– Global macro model (150+ countries)– Quarterly industrial production - GDP
model– Commodity price impact on terms of
trade– Impact of oil price on current account
balance, etc• In-built collaboration mechanisms
– Users can work in teams, share results
iSimulate
isimulate.worldbank.org
• Access major international trade and tariff and non-tariff data• View trade and protection data using standard and derived
nomenclatures (HS, SITC, BEC, ISIC, MTN, etc)• Custom queries for multiple countries, products, years, and flows• Calculate averages, weighted tariff rates, variability, etc.• Perform simulations to analyze impact of tariff changes• Check data availability
WITS
wits.worldbank.org
Visualizing development aid
• Includes donor and recipient country views of Official Development Assistance flows
• Uses data from World Bank and OECD
www.aidflows.org
Open to new engagement
Others can do it better!
Others can do it better!
Others can do it better!
Apps for Development
And the winners are…
And their apps…
Supporting others to do “open data”
Demand rising for Open Data in countries
And for more and better data: surveys…
Administrative data…
Vital registration systems…
… and trained and equipped statisticians
First year of Open Data: What we’ve learnt
Get clients to the data quickly!
Free data is not free
Revenues
Investment
But it’s good for business
Language matters to reach clients
So what about Hindi?
So what’s next?
Data, tools, supporting clientsBetter and more detailed data on developmentNew data at sub-national, household and firm levels, new focus on topical data such as poverty, gender, climate change; adding further multilaterals to AidFlows platform
Better data on impact and performancePublication of IEG historical project performance ratings, more data on donors finances and projects
Better tools to collaborate and engage citizensNew platforms for indicators and other datasets, better apps for access via mobile, improved tools for analysis and mapping
Support Open Data in developing countriesMany countries launching Open Data initiatives: Kenya first country to launch in Sub-Saharan Africa, on July 8th
A public good for the public good