[open-development] Google + World Bank Data?

Thu Nov 12 17:29:45 UTC 2009

Several people pointed this out to me today:

  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_makes_world_bank_data_more_discoverable.php

Do people know if this is using data that the WB have made open (as in
opendefinition.org), or if there have been separate negotiations with
Google?

Jonathan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andrew Lamb <andrew.lamb at ewb-uk.org>
Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Subject: Google - public data
To: Fran Talavera <fran.talavera at ewb-uk.org>, Katie Cresswell-Maynard
<katie.cresswell-maynard at ewb-uk.org>, Jonathan Gray
<jonathan.gray at okfn.org>

About time this came out!!

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=it_net_user_p2&idim=country:KOR:USA#met=it_net_user_p2&idim=country:USA:SWE:GBR:KEN:ESP

Might be of use.

Many thanks,
Andrew

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