. . . "the most valuable currency of the World Bank isn’t its money — it is its information" . . .
. . . "The bank, he says, is essentially widening the circle of people it can brainstorm with." . . .
. . . "Having created models for open-sourcing and crowd-sourcing, the bank is now moving toward mash-ups. A new Mapping for Results program offers interactive maps pinpointing locations of almost 3,000 bank projects in more than 16,000 places worldwide. Links open up pages with information about each project, and users can add overlays that show, say, where infant mortality is highest to see whether the bank’s work in those areas matches the need.
The program is sensitive because it involves releasing data provided by client governments and others, but the hope is that it will prompt these parties to link their own data on economic and social development to the site or otherwise make it available." . . .
World Bank Is Opening Its Treasure Chest of Data
HeraldTribune.com - Stephanie Strom - July 3, 2011
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