This project pilots the World Bank Global Data Regulation Toolkit, an integrated qualitative diagnostic tool that is designed to support a landscape analysis of a given country's existing data regulation framework and practices to enable effective and trustworthy use of data for economic development. The Toolkit is structured around key enablers and safeguards needed to support countries' transition to a data-driven and digital economy, and government and society, based on trust, equity, and value.
The Tanzania Open Data Initiative (TODI) is a three-year technical assistance program. The development objective of the activity is to improve the quality and access to information on health, education and water service delivery in Tanzania. The objective of the initiative is to design and conduct a series of open data and data wrangling workshops with members of government institutions and civil society in order to support the broader open data agenda, to provide skills development for data collection and management, and to help participants improve the content and quality of key datasets.
National Statistics Offices (NSOs) have the potential to play a pivotal role in the implementation of open data initiatives. As producers and curators of data, the objective of making high quality data more accessible and usable is consistent with their guiding principles.
Edo State Government and the World Bank set out to develop Nigeria’s first open data service as part of their commitment to greater transparency. Edo State Government required comprehensive knowledge transfer to take place so they would have full responsibility for the support and development of their data service.
