The Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM Indore) organised a workshop on Open Data Development Initiative of the World Bank on Tuesday at the IIM Indore.
The workshop was organised to raise awareness and ensure that IIM Indore students, researchers and faculty learn to use the policy and open tools to access timely and relevant data on Bank-financed projects. While welcoming the eminent speakers of the workshop, Akhtar Parvez briefly introduced them. The speakers were Sergiy Radyakin, Economist in Development Economics and Chief Economist Office, The World Bank, Washington; Shalmraj Ramraj, Knowledge Management Analyst, The World Bank, Chennai; Sunita Malhotra, The World Bank, New Delhi.
While introducing the concept of Open Development and Transparency initiative and Open Data Resources, Sunita Malhotra gave an Overview of the Bank’s modernization agenda and discussed the relevance of Open Development and Open tools in the context of the foundational role of the Access to Information Policy of the Bank.Shalmraj Ramraj focussed on the mapping for results platform, open geographic data and country specific cases and explained how the data is linked to the Bank’s operation. He also spoke on the methods of use of open data, processing, interpretation and visualisation techniques. Ramraj gave useful tips and tricks on messaging and how the data can be tracked by various stakeholders at the country level as well as used in conjunction with the Bank’s new projects & operations portal. During the last session of the workshop, Sergiy Radyakin, Knowledge Management Analyst in the World Bank introduced the web-based open data analytical tools and finances mobile applications.