Open Data in Developing Economies: Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How
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Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is known about open data’s role and value in low- and middle-income countries, and more generally about its possible contributions to economic and social development.
Open Data for Developing Economies features in-depth case studies on how open data is having an impact across the developing world-from an agriculture initiative in Colombia to data-driven healthcare projects in Uganda and South Africa to crisis response in Nepal. The analysis built on these case studies aims to create actionable intelligence regarding: (a) the conditions under which open data is most (and least) effective in development, presented in the form of a Periodic Table of Open Data; (b) strategies to maximize the positive contributions of open data to development; and (c) the means for limiting open data’s harms on developing countries.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
PART I: OPEN DATA FOR DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 2 The Relevance of Open Data for Developing Economies
Chapter 3 The Impact of Open Data on Developing Economies
Chapter 4 The Impact of Open Data in Developing Economies across Sectors
PART II: CASE STUDIES
Open Data’s Impact on Improving Government
Chapter 5 Burundi’s Open RBF
Chapter 6 India’s ESMI
Chapter 7 Open Development Cambodia
Chapter 8 Uganda’s iParticipate
Open Data’s Impact on Empowering Citizens
Chapter 9 GotToVote! Kenya
Chapter 10 Tanzania’s Open Education Dashboards
Chapter 11 South Africa’s Medicine Price Registry
Open Data’s Impact on Creating Opportunity
Chapter 12 Acl.mate Colombia
Chapter 13 Ghana’s Esoko
Chapter 14 Jamaica’s Interactive Community Mapping
Open Data’s Impact on Solving Public Problems
Chapter 15 Nepal Earthquake Recovery
Chapter 16 Paraguay’s Dengue Prediction
PART III: CONCLUSION
Chapter 17 Leveraging Open Data as a New Asset for Development
Appendix A: Input Received
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