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

Changing the Bank’s data businessThe Open Data Initiative

Open Data Initiative

• On April 20th, the World Bank announced a new policy on access to its data bases

•freely availableOpen•easy to use and re-useAccessible

•easy to findSearchable

Open Data

Open Data Phase 1

Free access to over 2,000 key indicatorsApplication Programming Interface (API) for software

developersWeb site with new data views and search facilities, and Multilingual access to data (300+ indicators in English,

French, Spanish, Arabic)

New business model

New terms of use New tools

•Remove obstacles to use and reuse of dataReach new

audiences•Create new applications using new

technologies Foster innovation

•Encourage partners to open their databases and share dataExpand data

resources

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Old site: 5,500 unique visi-tors/day

New site: 13,500 unique visitors/day

Increasing access

1.6 million+ page views

85,000+ video views

250,000+ unique visitors

20,000+ inbound links

80,000+ downloaded

files

500+ email subscriptions

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New terms of useBroadly consistent with Creative Commons 3.0 “Attribution Only” license

Noassociation

No endorsement

No warranties

Exclusions by data

suppliers may apply

New Web site: data.worldbank.org

Multilingual indicator lists

New data search tool

Media reactions: development community

Media reactions: technical community

The challenges aheadBeyond Open Data

Open Solutions• Use challenges (including “Apps 4 Development”)

to explore for new solutions• Encourage communities of practice and expertise• Provide on-line collaboration tools• Create showcase for applications based on Open

Knowledge and Open Data

Open Knowledge• Develop catalog of searchable research products

• Operational knowledge products (AAA)• Working papers and published reports• Tools (e.g. ADePT, PovCalNet, Isimulate, WITS,

IHSN Toolkit)• Software (shared source code for some tools)

• WB expert directory

Open Data• Expand Data Catalog to include research datasets,

DIME datasets, and available survey datasets• Translate and apply multilingual tagging of new

datasets for inclusion in Data Search function• Include additional time series data in the DataBank

(for custom data retrieval)• Upgrade Application Programming Interface

Realizing the Open Agenda

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

Most interesting app to date?

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

Better quality data

Access to micro data

Standards for data exchange

More information on the World Bank’s data programs

Open Datadata.worldbank.org

International Household Survey Networksurveynetwork.org

Bulletin Board on Statistical Capacitygo.worldbank.org/3J9X57XKY0

or www.worldbank.org search for BBSC

PS: The original mash up………