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The Big Mash Up or The Future of International Data

The Big Mash Up or The Future of International Data. The World Bank’s Open Data Initiative. Eric Swanson Development Data Group The World Bank July 2010. The Open Data Initiative. Changing the Bank’s data business. Open Data Initiative.

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The Big Mash Up or The Future of International Data

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  1. The Big Mash Up or The Future of International Data The World Bank’s Open Data Initiative Eric Swanson Development Data Group The World Bank July 2010

  2. The Open Data Initiative Changing the Bank’s data business

  3. Open Data Initiative • On April 20th, the World Bank announced a new policy on access to its data bases

  4. Open Data

  5. Open Data Phase 1 • Free access to over 2,000 key indicators • Application Programming Interface (API) for software developers • Web site with new data views and search facilities, and • Multilingual access to data (300+ indicators in English, French, Spanish, Arabic)

  6. Open Data Objectives

  7. Increasing access New site: 13,500 unique visitors/day

  8. Some stats

  9. New Web site: data.worldbank.org

  10. Multilingual indicator lists

  11. New data search tool

  12. Media reactions: development community

  13. Media reactions: technical community

  14. Beyond Open Data The challenges ahead

  15. Realizing the Open Agenda

  16. Apps 4 Development Challenge • Global competition to promote applications that use the Bank’s Open Data to explore, explain, understand the challenges of development • Bring together programmers, statisticians, and development specialists • Expecting visualization tools, “mash-ups” with other data sources, etc. • Formal launch October 2010 • Prizes awarded April 2011

  17. Most interesting app to date?

  18. More data needed • Climate change: impacts and adaptation • Crime, conflict, and violence • Wealth and sustainable growth • Human and physical capital stocks and natural resources • Value added in services by sector

  19. Better quality data

  20. Access to micro data

  21. Standards for data exchange

  22. More information on the World Bank’s data programs Open Data data.worldbank.org International Household Survey Network surveynetwork.org Bulletin Board on Statistical Capacity go.worldbank.org/3J9X57XKY0 or www.worldbank.org search for BBSC

  23. PS: The original mash up………

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