Geo-Enabling International Development - Blue Raster Esri UC 2011 Presentation

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Geo-Enabling International Development

Capacity is the Barrier to Transparency

Stephen AnsariBlue Raster LLC

@sansari22

sansari@blueraster.com

Why not Budget Transparency?The story of two countries with controversial record on budget transparency:

Kenya and Moldova

Capacity, not political resistance to openness.

BOOST initiativeOnce those barriers to data collection were

removed through the BOOST initiative,

the two governments have rapidly warmed up to the idea of making all this data public.

As a result, they became almost overnight two of the most transparent countries in the world.

Moldova

Kenya

Peru

Kenya Open Data Initiative - July 7thwww.opendata.go.ke

Showing flow of Domestic Spending

Spending and Expenditures Per Capita

Comparing Spending over Time

Many Indicators and other Comparators

Explore data beyond geography

Sorting, Filtering, Pivot Tables

Export Results into Table

What is the Success Story?BOOST is: Repeatable

UseableTimelyFlexibleComprehensi

veEffectiveTransparent

Moldova

Kenya

Peru

Bulgaria

Poland

Uganda

Latvia

El Salvador

Azerbaijan

Romania

…and it is spreading

Geo-Enabling International Development

Capacity is the Barrier to Transparency

Stephen AnsariBlue Raster LLC

@sansari22

sansari@blueraster.com

Massimo MastruzziWorld Bank Institute kenya.wb-boost.org

mmastruzzi@worldbank.org

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