Open Data and the World Bank

Open about what we doOpen about what we knowOpen to new engagement

Supporting others to be open

Vision is Open Development

Open Knowledge

Enable researchers, students, local communities to collect and share 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

Launched on April 20, 2010

A year of Open Data data.worldbank.orgOver 6 million unique visitors since launch of new multilingual site

Improving knowledge through data access and use

Mapping for ResultsAll projects geo-coded and mapped with development indicators

Improving results, accountability, and local engagement

Apps for Development100 entrants to the first global technology contest of its kind

Improving innovation and creating new users and new impacts

Finances and operationsFirst multilateral to publish to the International Aid Transparency Initiative

Improving transparency

•data freely availableOpen•data easy to use and re-useAccessible

•data easy to findSearchable

What is Open Data?

We went from this

To this…

data.worldbank.org

In five languages

Legally Open

You are free to use our data for commercial and

non-commercial purposes at no cost…

Technically Open

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.”

Open about what we know

A collection of “curated” data

By Country

By Topic

By indicator

By indicator

Microdata from surveys

microdata.worldbank.org

And lots more data…

• Data Catalog: a one-stop listing of data sources

• Download entire datasets

• Over 40 global, regional, specialized datasets

Open about what we do

Visualizing project locations

Data on the Bank’s work

Using international open standards

Tools for open data, research, and analysis

Custom queries

databank.worldbank.org

Mobile apps

• Replicate the calculations to estimate the extent of absolute poverty in the world, including “$1 a day”, and use alternative arameters

• Calculate head count index, poverty gap index, gini coefficient, Lorenz curve

• Uses distributional data derived from household surveys

PovcalNet

iresearch.worldbank.org/povcalnet

1. Select countries and enter parameters

2. Compute indicators

ADePt: from data to report

Inside ADePT:

User Computational interface kernel (Stata)

ADePTUser micro-level data: DHS, LSMS, LFS, …

Print-ready output

• A free web-based platform for collaborative economic simulations

• Hosts a variety of economic models:– Global macro model (150+ countries)– Quarterly industrial production - GDP

model– Commodity price impact on terms of

trade– Impact of oil price on current account

balance, etc• In-built collaboration mechanisms

– Users can work in teams, share results

iSimulate

isimulate.worldbank.org

• Access major international trade and tariff and non-tariff data• View trade and protection data using standard and derived

nomenclatures (HS, SITC, BEC, ISIC, MTN, etc)• Custom queries for multiple countries, products, years, and flows• Calculate averages, weighted tariff rates, variability, etc.• Perform simulations to analyze impact of tariff changes• Check data availability

WITS

wits.worldbank.org

Visualizing development aid

• Includes donor and recipient country views of Official Development Assistance flows

• Uses data from World Bank and OECD

www.aidflows.org

Open to new engagement

Others can do it better!

Others can do it better!

Others can do it better!

Apps for Development

And the winners are…

And their apps…

Supporting others to do “open data”

Demand rising for Open Data in countries

And for more and better data: surveys…

Administrative data…

Vital registration systems…

… and trained and equipped statisticians

First year of Open Data: What we’ve learnt

Get clients to the data quickly!

Free data is not free

Revenues

Investment

But it’s good for business

Language matters to reach clients

So what about Hindi?

So what’s next?

Data, tools, supporting clientsBetter and more detailed data on developmentNew data at sub-national, household and firm levels, new focus on topical data such as poverty, gender, climate change; adding further multilaterals to AidFlows platform

Better data on impact and performancePublication of IEG historical project performance ratings, more data on donors finances and projects

Better tools to collaborate and engage citizensNew platforms for indicators and other datasets, better apps for access via mobile, improved tools for analysis and mapping

Support Open Data in developing countriesMany countries launching Open Data initiatives: Kenya first country to launch in Sub-Saharan Africa, on July 8th

A public good for the public good