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Delivered by Tariq Khokhar at the European Association of Development Research and Training Institute's Information Management Working Group Conference in Antwerp, Belgium on September 13th, 2012.
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Open Data And Open Development
Resources and lessons from the World Bank
Tariq Khokhar Open Data Evangelist [email protected] @tkb
#IMWG12 Antwerp
September 13th
Open Data in Action: 1
John Snow’s Cholera Map
- Cholera, London, 1854
- Plotted distribution of deaths on a
map (created data)
- Plotted water points and pumps
(combined with other data)
- Saw connection with 1 pump
- Removed the handle (took action)
- Open Data was saving lives in the
19th century. Birth of epidemiology.
Open Data in Action: The 19th Centrury
See http://bit.ly/yn14B0
Open Data in Action: Kenya
Kenya Open Budget Data: Raw numbers, hard to understand…
Government data, visualized by citizens, easier to understand
See: http://bit.ly/zhTQLF
Open Data in Action: World Bank
Combine with other datasets to generate new questions and insights
IEG + Projects Open Data used by AidData researchers - See http://bit.ly/yePUK9
Who’s doing Open Data?
See: http://www.data.gov/opendatasites
• National Governments
• Local Governments
• Scientific Institutions
• International Agencies
• Donors & Aid Agencies
• Academia
• Philanthropies
• Companies
• Non-profits
It’s data that’s technically open
You can search for it and find it easily online
It’s available in an editable electronic format or an API
Open Data: Technically Open
xls, json, txt, csv, xml, html,
doc, API, odt, ods etc. PDF, images (JPG, GIF,
PNG), other proprietary formats.
It’s data that is legally open
You can use it freely
You can re-use it freely
You can redistribute it freely
For commercial and non-commercial purposes
Open Data: Legally Open
Nine Open Data Resources
1) data.worldbank.org
In five languages
By Topic
Indicators
By Country
By Country
2) databank.worldbank.org
2) databank.worldbank.org
3) The DataFinder Apps
Blackberry, Android, iPad, iPhone in 4 Languages
4) The Developer APIs
4) The Developer APIs
5) Google Search and PDE
5) Google Search and PDE
6) The Data Catalogs
data.worldbank.org/data-catalog
6) The Data Catalogs
microdata.worldbank.org
7) World Bank Finances
finances.worldbank.org
8) Projects and Operations Portal and Maps
worldbank.org/projects
8) Projects and Operations Portal and Maps
maps.worldbank.org
9) Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)
Open access repository for WB research outputs and knowledge products Interoperable with other repositories and meets OA requirements
Launched in conjunction with WB’s new Open Access Policy
Content available under CC-BY license
openknowledge.worldbank.org
7 Things I’ve Learnt
1. Can’t do open data without data to open up
We started with this:
1. Can’t do open data without data to open up
Rather than this:
2. Free data is not free…
2. But it’s good for the data business
2. But it’s good for the data business
Top 5 site sections of worldbank.org, % of visits per week
3. Being legally open is just as important as being technically open
You are free to use our data for commercial and
non-commercial purposes at no cost…
4. Make it easy for others to use our data
And it will get used…
And it will get used…
worldbank.tumblr.com
And it will get used…
And it will get used…
Others can reach users better
5. We need to help others do Open Data
6. Context is important
Flowchart of how a World Bank project works
7. It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it
What does this chart represent?
1/3 of users come for open data
All World Bank Web Traffic
Open Data
What does this chart represent?
What does this chart represent?
All World Bank Web Traffic: Annually
What does this chart represent?
Traffic to Wikipedia
What does this chart represent?
Traffic to Wikipedia in a month
Take data to where the people are
Dominic McDevitt-Parks said his goal is to "foster collaboration between the Wikipedia community and the National Archives for their mutual benefit--or, in reality:
the benefit of the public, which both projects serve."
The future?
World Bank
?
Thank You
Tariq Khokhar Open Data Evangelist World Bank Data Group [email protected] @tkb