Open Development and the World Bank 11 th WBG European PSLO Retreat Brussels, January 21-23, 2013
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Open Development and the World Bank
11th WBG European PSLO Retreat Brussels, January 21-23, 2013
“The World Bank sees openness and transparency as key to delivering better development results and strengthening accountability.”
World Bank President Jim Kim
Why: A New Social Contract
Connected globe Greater aid
scrutiny
Wisdom of the crowd
Engaged civil society
Freedom of information
Multi-polar world
Open Development
What, Why and How
Open About What We Know (Data, Research and Knowledge)
Open About What We Do (Operations, Finances and
Results)
Open About How We Work (Partnerships for Openness)
Open
Government (Transparency, Accountability)
What is Open Development?
How: The Open World Bank
Open Data, Research & Knowledge
•Open Data Initiative •South-South Exchanges •Open Knowledge Repository •Knowledge Reports
Open Operations, Finances & Results
•Projects & Operations •Open Finances • IEG Evaluations •Mapping for Results •Corporate Scorecard •AidFlows
Partnerships for Openness
•Open Government Partnership •Knowledge Platforms •Kenya/Moldova Open Data
Portal
Access to Information Policy
The Response (July 2010 – December 2011)
• 24,000 new documents disclosed to the public on the Documents and Reports website
• Users viewed more than 6.8 million pages and downloaded 1.3 million documents
• 1.6 million visits to the Documents and Reports website
• 1,060 public information requests were made to the Bank (89.6% of the requests received were fulfilled)
• 76 million visits to the Open Data website*
• 75,000 visits to the Open Finances website**
http://www.worldbank.org/wbaccess * April 2010 – September 2012, ** July 2011 – April 2012
Recognition • The World Bank is at the forefront of the International
Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).
• The World Bank is one of only two organizations to be rated “good” and ranked second behind UK’s DFID in terms of aid transparency out of 72 donor organizations, according to the 2012 Aid Transparency Assessment by the U.K.-based Publish What You Fund.
• The Center for Global Development and Brookings ranked IDA as top donor in transparency and learning.
Open Data
“The World Bank must continue investing in data and analytic tools, building on the success of the Open Data initiative. Data are crucial to setting priorities, making sound policy, and tracking results.”
President Jim Yong Kim Annual Meetings, 2012
Why do Open Data?
1.Transparency • Who is doing what, where? Where does the money
go? Does not imply accountability but may enable it 2.Engagement
• Let others see your data, interact with it, provide feedback and ideas: co-create, build relationships.
3.Efficiency • Let others find ways of improving what you’re doing.
4.Innovation • Let others do or discover new things
• data freely available Open
• data easy to use and re-use • several languages Accessible
• data easy to find and download Searchable
What is Open Data?
It’s data that is legally open You can use it freely
You can re-use it freely
You can redistribute it freely
Use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes It may require that you attribute the publisher when the data is
used. All of the above should be clear in a usage license or terms of use
Anybody can take your data, repackage & recombine it and sell it.
Open Data: Legally Open
Terms of use
• Users are encouraged to use the data. – extract, download, and make copies – Share with third parties.
• Attribution • No Endorsement • No Association • No Warranties
How can you use Open Data? Provide context or support for communications
Using Open Data when communicating: http://bit.ly/w6kWv3
See also Google…
HOW TO FIND DATA
WDI is primary source for data.worldbank.org
In five languages
English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese
Data By Country & Region
Data By Country
Data By Topic
Data By Topic
Data by Indicators
World Integrated Trade Solution
Who’s doing Open Data?
See: http://www.data.gov/opendatasites
• National Governments • Local Governments • Scientific Institutions • International Agencies • Donors & Aid Agencies • Philanthropies • Companies • Non-profits
Kenya Open Data
Kenya Open Budget Data: Raw numbers, hard to understand…
Government data, visualized by citizens, easier to understand
See: http://bit.ly/zhTQLF
https://opendata.go.ke/Health/Health-Facilities-Near-Nairobi/9t8n-p6s2
http://microdata.worldbank.org
The Microdata Library The World Bank Microdata Library currently Comprises: A Central Catalog which acts a searchable central portal and contains the full list of all studies listed in all World Bank and Partner Repositories The Central Catalog is currently fed by five World Bank repositories and two repositories from partner organizations outside the Bank The list of contributing repositories is growing all the time.
• International Debt Statistics 2013 is a successor of the World Bank's publication, Global Development Finance (2010-2012), Global Development Finance, Volume II (1997 through 2009), and its precursor, World Debt Tables (1973 through 1996).
• The report provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 128 developing countries that report to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System and summary information for countries reporting to the Quarterly External Debt Statistics and the Public Sector Database.
International debt statistics
http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/international-debt-statistics
Finances, Mapping, & Projects and Operations Portal
• Raw data and packaged views of: – IBRD loans, IDA credits, IDA
grants
– IBRD, IDA financial statements
– Financial Intermediary Funds (FiFs)
– Administrative Budget
– Trust Funds
World Bank Finances
https://finances.worldbank.org
#WBFinances
A resource for your questions about the World Bank’s financial activities
As Borrower How many World Bank loans and credits for your country? As Grant Recipient Which grants does your country get from the Bank? As Donor Which Bank-managed trust funds does your country contribute to? As Member What’s your country’s voting power at the Bank? Analyze and visualize data with easy-to-use tools
What Data on Sri Lanka
Financial data at the country, project, loan levels • Follow financial activities at these levels • Share data via social media, e-mail First step toward citizen engagement; avenue for direct feedback to the World Bank
Mobile App: Data on the Go
Other Mobile Apps
• Integrity App: Reporting Fraud and Corruption in WB-financed projects
• World Bank InfoFinder App
• World Bank Jobs Data Finder
maps.worldbank.org
Mapping at Various Levels… Regions Countries
Sectors Projects
OpenAid Partnership http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/about/approaches/open-aid-partnership
27 Donors AFDB, AusAid, BADEA,
Canada, CDC, DFID, EU, FAO, FICA, GTZ, ICEIDA,
IFAD, Ireland, Japan, JICA, KFW, Kuwait Fund, Norway,
OPEU Fund, People’s Republic of China, UNDP, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, USAID, WFP, World Bank
Open Knowledge Repository, AidFlows & Other Useful
Resources
Open Access Policy
Open Access Policy
Creative Commons
Open Knowledge Repository
July 2012
April 2012 April 2012
AidFlows Donor view
Health, Nutrition, Population Portal add internet address http://datatopics.worldbank.org/hnp/
http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/index.cfm
Climate change portal
The Open World Bank
Open Data, Research & Knowledge
•Open Data Initiative •Mapping for Results •South-South Exchanges •Open Knowledge Repository •Knowledge Reports
Open Operations & Results
•Projects Portal • IEG Evaluations •Corporate Scorecard •World Bank Finances •AidFlows
Partnerships for Openness
•Open Government Partnership •Knowledge Platforms •Kenya Open Data Portal
Access to Information Policy
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