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
Open Data Objectives
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May 11, 2010
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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
Some stats
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………
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