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Motivation

• Part of a broader move, including new Access to Information Policy

• Aim is to stimulate use of development data to help solve development problems

• Builds on global Open Data initiatives

Open Development

Open Knowledge

Enable researchers, students, local communities to collect 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

Open Data: Legally Open

You are free to use our data for commercial and

non-commercial purposes at no cost…

Users are encouraged to use the data and share with third parties.

You can use it freely

You can re-use it freely

You can redistribute it freely

We ask for attribution

For commercial and non-commercial purposes

Open Data: Terms of Use

It’s data that’s technically open

You can search for it and find it easily onlineIt’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.

New data.worldbank.org

• Data site’s Home, Country, Indicator and Topic pages are available in five corporate languages

• Content for 24 country pages is accessible in 17 local languages

Multi-Lingual

Five languagesEnglish | Español | Français | العربية | 中文

Data By Country & Region

New Country Pages

Country Page Localization

Data By Topic

Data By Topic

Data by Topic

Data by Indicators

See the data

Access Metadata

Chart an indicator

Map an indicator by points

Map an indicator by shade

Embed tables, charts, maps as a widget in a blog or a website

How can you use this?

Justin Lin using Open Data when communicating: http://bit.ly/w6kWv3

Easy to share via social media

Data catalog

• One-stop listing of sources

• Download entire dataset, access query tool

• Global, regional, specialized datasets

• Search based on synonyms and acronyms

– 160 datasets included in DataBank, 9000+ indicators

– 80+ datasets accessible through an API 6000+ indicators

Databases in API format

Build for re-use

microdata.worldbank.org

Accessing Questionnaires

Documentation

Documentation

Quick data results through search

External applications use World Bank data

New DataBank Quicker and simpler access to data

Secured user login for saving and sharing

Widgets for blogs and sites

Social Media Integration

iPad compatibility

English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic

Create custom queries

Save and share reports, charts, maps

Enhanced visualizations

Data Portals

Use of Tableau for Dashboards

Other products and tools

Central location for data books, CDs, visualization tools,mobile applications

DataFinder 4.0mobile apps for iPad/iPhone and Android

Analytical Tools

PovcalNETanalyze poverty data

using different poverty lines and for

different country aggregates

Adeptautomate and

standardize the production of

analytical reports using survey datasets

wbopendatadirect access to latest version of the Bank’s data

through the Stata interface

Data support

Contact us

Engaged with users

Link to social media

Widgets for blog posts and sites

Respond to feedback