Open Data
World Bank · 2015
Describes the Open Data Initiative, launched by the World Bank Group in 2010, which provides free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe comprised of data sets from general socioeconomic data collections to more specialized data including commodity prices, gender statistics, migration data, debt statistics, education data, and data on the World Bank’s finances, projects, and operations, as well as survey-level micro data. In addition to its publishing program, the World Bank Group (WBG) has sought ways to engage data users, running two app contests since 2010 challenging the developer community to create tools, applications, and analyses using World Bank (WB) data aimed to improve users’ understanding of development issues. Since its launch, the WB initiative has shown leadership in the area of aid transparency and has seen a more than 10-fold increase in the number of online visits.