[open-development] World Bank: New Practitioner Resources on Access to Information

Wed Aug 4 08:41:07 UTC 2010

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Chris Watkins
<chriswaterguy at appropedia.org> wrote:
> 1. Good to see the WB showing an awareness of this.
> 2. Frustrating to see them telling the world "how it's done" when
> their own standards of openness are  in need of serious improvement.

You saw this right?

http://blog.okfn.org/2010/04/20/world-bank-opens-up-development-data/
http://ckan.net/package/world-bank

This too:

http://www.worldbank.org/wbaccess
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/worldbankreform/

And this?

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22634909~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

What else should they be doing? (Not a rhetorical question!) ;-)

All the best,

Jonathan

> On 03/08/2010, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/news/2010/07/27/available-now-new-practitioner-resources-access-information
>>
>> "Citizens’ Access to Information (ATI) is an essential step to
>> ensuring transparency and accountability in government.  Promotion of
>> ATI must be addressed through different channels.
>>
>> Targeted for practitioners working on governance and transparency
>> issues, the World Bank Institute (WBI) has recently published three
>> working papers with examples of how countries have undertaken
>> proactive disclosure of public information; citizen participation and
>> transparency in Supreme Audit Institutions; and transparency in the
>> judiciary."
>>
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