1. Open Government From Data to Information Presentation by Tariq Khokhar (@tkb) March 1 st 2012

2. 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

3. It’s data that’s technically open You can search for it and find it easily online It’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.

4. It’s data that is legally open You can use it freely You can re-use it freely You can redistribute it freely For commercial and non-commercial purposes Open Data: Legally Open

5. Open Government Data? Statistical Data Facts and figures about people, the economy, and the environment - context in which government operates Administrative Data Day-to-day, disaggregated administration and execution of government: budgets, expenditures, resources, performance, locations, availability etc. Political Data The what, why and how of policy decisions and official government activity. Research and Reference Data Public reference data & data generated by the nation's scientific agencies and publicly funded research institutions

6. World Bank Open Data Initiative We’re open about what we know and open about what we do.

7. World Bank Open Data Initiative data.worldbank.org Launched by Robert Zoellick in April 2010 +11 million visits since launch Internationally acclaimed 1/3 of all web traffic at the World Bank is for open data Over 60 major datasets listed in the catalog. 7,000+ indicators Acts as a central index and starting place for all data across the bank

8. Open about what we know data.worldbank.org – over 60 major datasets in the data catalog including: WDI & GDF Doing Business EAP Economic Update Migration + Remittances World Governance Indc. Access to over 7,000 development indicators. More about “what we know” soon….

9. Open about what we do maps.worldbank.org – maps and data on 2,784 IDA and IBRD financed activites in 30,387 locations www.worldbank.org/projects - data and dashboards on 11,000 lending projects since 1947 finances.worldbank.org - loan- level data and tools on investments and assets. IEG Ratings: 8,000 project performance assessments since 1964 iatiregistry.org/group/worldb ank - IATI – activity details in international aid transparency initiative format

10. Lessons I’m learning The interesting bit…

11. Open about what we do….

12. Context is important

14. It gives people context

16. It’s one of the 5-stars in fact… Be demand driven Provide context Support conversation Build capacity & skills Collaborate with the community See full post on Tim Davies’ blog: http://bit.ly/AaIrQe

17. It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it

18. Build for re-use

19. And it’ll get re-used

21. Also: watch GOV.UK carefully Gov.uk may be the future direction of how and what user- centric institutional openness can look like.

22. The difference between open and open See: “The new ambiguity of Open Government – Yu and Robinson - http://bit.ly/A7yowh “A well curated RDF dataset of the names, pictures and vital statistics of every cat that’s lived at 10 Downing Street if published by data.gov.uk would be Open Government Data”

23. Re-use of “Adaptable” Open Data Combine with other datasets to generate new questions and insights “The spatial distribution of violence and project performance do not correspond as closely as one might expect. Conventional wisdom holds that aid projects are generally less successful in conflict-affected areas. But this map suggests that many failed World Bank projects actually cluster in the relatively less violent provinces north of Kabul…” IEG + Projects Open Data used by AidData researchers - See http://bit.ly/yePUK9

24. Put data where the people are

25. That goes for words as well… Machine Readable Human Readable Legal Code

26. World Bank: An Open Access Publisher 1.Implement an Open Access Policy 2.Change the Bank’s copyright practice 3.Launch the Open Knowledge Repository “Probably the most open approach to institutional publishing imaginable”

27. What will it enable? Findability & Usability Huge improvements in indexabilty and searchabilty – easy to use formats. Re-use Text-mine for research and decision tools? Improved statistical machine learning for translation (Google already does it with key UN texts)… Redistribution Educators can compile content, remix from various books, translate and repackage for local consumption…

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29. 1/3 of users come for open data All World Bank Web Traffic Open Data

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31. All World Bank Web Traffic: Annually

32. What does this chart represent? Traffic to Wikipedia

33. What does this chart represent? Traffic to Wikipedia in a month

34. Take data to where the people are Dominic McDevitt-Parks said his goal is to "foster collaboration between the Wikipedia community and the National Archives for their mutual benefit--or, in reality: the benefit of the public, which both projects serve."

35. The future? World Bank ?

36. Thanks!