University Library “Svetozar Markovic” from Belgrade, Serbia, and partnering institutions organized Open Access Week at the University of Belgrade from October 22 to 28, 2012.
"Open Access and the World Bank" was presented by Mirjana Popovic from the World Bank, Belgrade, Serbia.
3. What is Open Development?
Open About
Open About Open About Open
What We Do
What We Know How We Work Government
(Operations, Fin
(Data, Research (Partnerships (Transparency,
ances and
and Knowledge) for Openness) Accountability)
Results)
4. Why: A New Social Contract
Connected
globe Greater aid
scrutiny
Multi-polar
world
Wisdom of
the crowd
Freedom of
information
Engaged
civil society
6. 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**
* April 2010 – September 2012, ** July 2011 – April 2012
8. What is Open Data?
Open • data freely available
Accessible • data easy to use and re-use
Searchable • data easy to find
9. Everything changed in April 2010
Before… After…
Subscriptions Free!
Custom query tool New website, downloads, API
Restrictions on use Minimal restrictions on use
+Spanish, French, Arabic,
English
Chinese
Not searchable Searchable
Scattered datasets Data catalog
10. Open Data: Technically Open
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
xls, json, txt, csv, xml, PDF, images (JPG, GIF,
html, doc, API, odt, ods PNG), other proprietary
etc. formats.
11. Open Data: Legally Open
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.
20. World Bank Finances
A resource for your questions about the World Bank’s financial
activities
• Raw data and packaged
views of:
– IBRD loans, IDA credits, IDA
grants
– IBRD, IDA financial
statements
– Financial Intermediary Funds
(FiFs)
– Administrative Budget
– Trust Funds
#WBFinances
https://finances.worldbank.org
21. Data on Serbia
What
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
These are the four broad, inter-connected components of Open Development. Open Development is about answering four basic questions:What and where are the opportunities to improve lives?Who is doing what about them?Is it working?Can I participate in the process?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------The rise of MICs and the emergence of the G20 not only signals a shift in global power, but the success of these countries in creating growth and battling poverty. These countries now represent important sources of South-South knowledge and investment to complement what the North can do. Technology, and particularly the phenomenal penetration of mobile phones into the developing world has opened dramatic new ways of participating in political and economic decision making. Citizens are now able to track and give feedback on whether teachers are showing up in school, whether text books are being delivered. As the Arab Spring and numerous other citizen movements around the world show, citizens are now able to mobilize quickly and in a sustained manner to demand accountability. Global connectedness and the ability of more players to participate in the dialogue has resulted in the democratization of development – solutions, innovations, ‘wisdom’ are no longer the preserve of a northern elite, but can emerge from anywhere.Alongside there is a move for greater freedom of information and transparency of governments, multilateral institutions, and other publicly accountable bodies.The financial crisis has created fiscal and political pressures on traditional donor assistance, including the pressure and imperative to show concrete and tangible results. These trends together call for a new social compact on development between government and citizens.------------------------------------------------------------------------We are headed towards a global model of Open Development— encompassing aid , governance and knowledge, and it is a development model based on openness and transparency.We are moving towards an era in which all donor activity around the world will be geo-coded and overlaid with critical poverty indicators to spur both accountability and action. And while the World Bank will continue to lend money, the value of our data, tools, and connections may eventually eclipse the power of our balance sheet. And that is where we’re headed.
The Access to Information policy allows all information in the Bank’s possession to be available except those on a small list of exceptions. The policy is based on five principles:Maximizing access to informationClear list of exceptionsSafeguarding the deliberative processClear procedures for making information availableRight to appealMention prerogative to disclose restricted information and similarly to restrict access under exceptional circumstances.