International Open Data and World Bank Competition
Earlier, I wrote about the fact that open data is important and useful to society and that it is used all over the world.
However, mentioning the open data disclosed by the state, one cannot but mention another important phenomenon - the disclosure of data by international organizations such as the UN and the World Bank, as well as why they are disclosed.
I will elaborate on the disclosure of information by the World Bank.
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Probably, one of you knows that for many years the World Bank has been collecting large amounts of information for each country, mainly statistical data about the structure of their economy, values and indicators necessary for assessing the level of economic development, data used in the ratings of ease of starting a business and much more.
In addition, it is one of the world's largest international financial organizations that provides funding for dozens and hundreds of projects around the world.
In early 2010, the World Bank created the Data.worldbank.org portal on the Internet.
This site is the center of information disclosure in machine-readable form and providing data to users in several forms at once:
1. Catalog of open data
The catalog contains almost all the arrays available to the World Bank. Data is presented in XML, CSV, XLS formats or links to the description of the API through which data can be obtained.
The catalog is available at the link - http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog
2. Public API
The list of indicators, the catalog of countries and the values of the indicators are all available through a special online API whose description can be viewed by reference. http://data.worldbank.org/developers
Given the huge number of indicators and their very detailed presentation - anyone who makes projects with information about different countries of the world can use this data at any time.
3. Country profiles and visualization
For each of the countries there is a special page on which key indicators are displayed in the form of numbers and graphs. For example, you can see the profiles of the Russian Federation , Ukraine or any other country in the catalog of countries
Also there are thematic sections and indicators, you can view each of them.
4. Electronic Development Atlas
Atlas can be found here - http://www.app.collinsindicate.com/worldbankatlas-global/en
This is a completely new World Bank project in which the data of the indicators are displayed on the map, there is a possibility of comparison and much more.
5. Application for iPhone
Quite decent looking iPhone app
With the ability to view data through its interface. Maybe not the most relevant of the above, but a useful application.
However, all these data and their visualization recede into the background compared with their development. So that would be impossible without data, but that is the goal.
This is a competition. Contest - Apps for Development last year and the results of which are summarized today.
In this competition, developers were asked to create socially useful and commercial applications based on the World Bank database. His prize fund is 55 thousand US dollars.
Several hundreds of applications were submitted, of which 107 were accepted, you can view them all here.
And the summing up can be traced today via this link - http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/event/apps-4-dev
This competition and its results as well as the results of other similar competitions held earlier and there is a question why open data are needed.
They are not needed at all for someone to explain their usefulness and applicability. Not at all.
They are needed in order for you to be able to find those ideas on the basis of which you could create commercial projects and projects open and useful to citizens.
Open data does not provide answers and solutions. They give you the opportunity and the freedom to find your own answers, and this is where this value lies.
I urge you to seek such solutions. Using global data about Russia, using our, Russian open data .
I can say for sure that similar competitions will be held in Russia, perhaps even this year.
However, mentioning the open data disclosed by the state, one cannot but mention another important phenomenon - the disclosure of data by international organizations such as the UN and the World Bank, as well as why they are disclosed.
I will elaborate on the disclosure of information by the World Bank.
')
Probably, one of you knows that for many years the World Bank has been collecting large amounts of information for each country, mainly statistical data about the structure of their economy, values and indicators necessary for assessing the level of economic development, data used in the ratings of ease of starting a business and much more.
In addition, it is one of the world's largest international financial organizations that provides funding for dozens and hundreds of projects around the world.
In early 2010, the World Bank created the Data.worldbank.org portal on the Internet.
This site is the center of information disclosure in machine-readable form and providing data to users in several forms at once:
1. Catalog of open data
The catalog contains almost all the arrays available to the World Bank. Data is presented in XML, CSV, XLS formats or links to the description of the API through which data can be obtained.
The catalog is available at the link - http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog
2. Public API
The list of indicators, the catalog of countries and the values of the indicators are all available through a special online API whose description can be viewed by reference. http://data.worldbank.org/developers
Given the huge number of indicators and their very detailed presentation - anyone who makes projects with information about different countries of the world can use this data at any time.
3. Country profiles and visualization
For each of the countries there is a special page on which key indicators are displayed in the form of numbers and graphs. For example, you can see the profiles of the Russian Federation , Ukraine or any other country in the catalog of countries
Also there are thematic sections and indicators, you can view each of them.
4. Electronic Development Atlas
Atlas can be found here - http://www.app.collinsindicate.com/worldbankatlas-global/en
This is a completely new World Bank project in which the data of the indicators are displayed on the map, there is a possibility of comparison and much more.
5. Application for iPhone
Quite decent looking iPhone app
With the ability to view data through its interface. Maybe not the most relevant of the above, but a useful application.
However, all these data and their visualization recede into the background compared with their development. So that would be impossible without data, but that is the goal.
This is a competition. Contest - Apps for Development last year and the results of which are summarized today.
In this competition, developers were asked to create socially useful and commercial applications based on the World Bank database. His prize fund is 55 thousand US dollars.
Several hundreds of applications were submitted, of which 107 were accepted, you can view them all here.
And the summing up can be traced today via this link - http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/event/apps-4-dev
This competition and its results as well as the results of other similar competitions held earlier and there is a question why open data are needed.
They are not needed at all for someone to explain their usefulness and applicability. Not at all.
They are needed in order for you to be able to find those ideas on the basis of which you could create commercial projects and projects open and useful to citizens.
Open data does not provide answers and solutions. They give you the opportunity and the freedom to find your own answers, and this is where this value lies.
I urge you to seek such solutions. Using global data about Russia, using our, Russian open data .
I can say for sure that similar competitions will be held in Russia, perhaps even this year.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/117477/
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