As an American living and working in Shanghai, I’ve come to appreciate any kind of device or service (VPN, Skype calls home, etc.) that allows me to access information from outside my immediate reality. On a grander scale, however, is…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: World Bank
Open Data is Powerful, and the Government Knows It
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: Audrey Haque, citizens, data visualisation, data.gov, DATA.GOV.UK, empowerment, Expenditure, open data, Open Data for Africa, open government, Transparency, value, Where Does My Money Go, Wiredcraft, World Bank
New Report: How Open Data can Drive Sustainable Development
By Joel Gurin and Laura Manley, Center for Open Data Enterprise and Oleg Petrov, World Bank. This article is cross-posted from the World Bank Information and Communications for Development (IC4D) Blog. Open Data — data that is freely available online…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Saving money, Transparency Tagged with: Center for Open Data Enterprise, Joel Gurin, Laura Manley, Oleg Petrov, Open Data For Sustainable Development, open data impact map, Sustainable development, World Bank
Open Data Can Support Sustainable Development: World Bank Report
(3BL Media/Justmeans) – Open Data refers to data that is freely available online for anyone to use and republish for any purpose – without any restriction from copyrights, patents and other mechanisms of control. Data is one of the most…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds Tagged with: JustMeans, open data, Vikas Vij, World Bank
The future of government is open
The World Bank Group sees the pillars of a more open and citizen centric government–transparency, citizen participation, and collaboration–as strategic priorities in its work on governance because they suggest concrete ways to promote shared prosperity. Having made significant strides to…
New report: How Open Data can drive sustainable development
Open Data — data that is freely available online for anyone to use and republish for any purpose — is becoming increasingly important in today’s development agenda driven by the Data Revolution, which…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds Tagged with: open data, Sustainable development, Tech in America, World Bank
Open Data for Business Tool: Learning from Initial Pilots
This article is cross-posted from the World Bank Information and Communications for Development (IC4D) Blog. Around the world, governments, entrepreneurs and established businesses are seeing the economic growth potential of using Open Data – data from government and other sources…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Smart communities Tagged with: Government, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laura Manley, ODRA, open data, Open Data for Business (OD4B), Open Data Readiness Assessment (ODRA), open government, Serbia, tools, World Bank
New report: How Open Data can drive sustainable development
Open Data — data that is freely available online for anyone to use and republish for any purpose — is being widely recognized as a resource with economic and social value. In recent years, several studies — including those led by…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: Data Revolution, Joel Gurin, Laura Manley, Open Data For Sustainable Development, open data impact map, policy paper, Report, Sustainable development, World Bank
Open Data for Business Tool: learning from initial pilots
Citizens in Nigeria participate in a readiness assessment exercise to identify high-priority datasets Around the world, governments, entrepreneurs and established businesses are seeing the economic growth potential of using Open Data – data from government and other sources that can…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds Tagged with: Business, Central Asia, citizens, Europe and, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Laura Manley, Nigeria, open data, Serbia, South Asia, World Bank
OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA: THE NIGERIA EXPERIENCE
Open Government (OG) is about openness, which begins with process of transparency, accountability and citizen engagement for effective and efficient governance. To achieve and sustain this, all stakeholders must understand the overall goals of the process and specific roles they…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: Murtalia Bello Bankanu, Nigeria, open data, open government, Open Government Partnership, Transparency, World Bank
Medicine in India: ‘Qualified Quacks’ and a Baffling Drug Landscape
This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News. Everything about 33-year-old Vishal Chand pointed to a myocardial infarction — commonly known as a heart attack — when he presented to Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur,…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Transparency Tagged with: Corruption, data, doctors, Frederik Joelving, General Practitioners (GPs), heart, heart attack, JAMA Pediatrics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, MedPage Today, rural health providers, Vice News, World Bank