Workshop

The Department of Economics  organized a one day workshop on `Open Data Development Initiatives’ of the World Bank in collaboration with World Bank Group, New Delhi. The WB Group has organized around 50 such trainings in many lead institutes like IIMs, IITs, JNU, NCAER, CPR, BHU, etc. since 2012.

The primary principle of the Open Development initiative was Open Data and Knowledge, Open Operations and Tools and open solutions.  Broad access to these data allows citizens, CSOs, policy makers, advocacy groups and other stakeholders to make better-informed decisions and to measure improvements more accurately.

 The World Bank represents a fundamental shift in the its’s approach to making information publicly available. It recognizes the centrality of transparency and accountability to the development process and includes principled commitments to strengthen public ownership and oversight of Bank-financed operations. The Bank’s Open Data, Open Finances, Geomapping, Open Knowledge Repository (OKR), publication and reports, and other platforms, open tools, Mobile apps represent its efforts to foster transparency and openness.

 This workshop was planned to raise awareness and ensure that Students/researchers and beneficiary communities learn to use the policy and open tools to access timely and relevant information and data on Bank-financed projects and make the Open Agenda to be better known among academics, researchers, CSOs, and policymakers in country.