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Open Data at the World Bank
A public good for the public good
Neil Fantom
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Vision is 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
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Open Data
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April 20, 2010
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We went from this
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To this…
data.worldbank.org
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In five languages
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Data catalog with full downloads
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We’ve developed new apps
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And provided new data
maps.worldbank.org
• Project locations geo-referenced on a pilot basis from publicly available documents
• Basis for displaying projects on maps
• New “Mapping for Results” application allows overlay with other indicators, such as those for measuring the MDGs
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Latest addition: survey microdata
microdata.worldbank.org
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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.”
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What we’ve learnt about implementing Open Data
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Free data is not free
Revenues
Investment
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But it’s good for business
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Data “curation” matters
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Data licensing matters• Creative Commons Zero is a good model (CC0): no
copyright, public domain
• Encourage use and re-use, including for commercial purposes
• Require attribution to primary and secondary sources
• Main usual exclusions: no endorsement, association, warranty, liability
• Need special terms for “raw” data collected under confidentiality agreements
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It’s not about developing a pretty website
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Others can reach users better
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Create incentives for intermediaries
• First global competition to create innovative software applications for development
• Must use some World Bank data, and address one of the MDGs
• Aim: bring together software developers and development practitioners
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Open Data brings new opportunities
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The winning apps…
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Guiding future development• Open Data is good for the data and official statistics
business
• But some countries and partners face obstacles to adopting an Open Data policy:– Data access restrictions for some datasets– Capacity and incentives– Technical barriers– Open Data not prioritized in NSDSs
• Working together, and through PARIS21, we can make progress
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A public good for the public good