PFM Board
Donor practices => Aid Effectiveness, now what? => Topic started by: Napodano on December 27, 2012, 12:14:05 GMT
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EU Commission unwraps public beta of open data portal with 5800+ datasets, ahead of Jan 2013 launch
http://open-data.europa.eu/open-data/
'This portal is about transparency, open government and innovation. The European Commission Data Portal provides access to open public data from the European Commission. It also provides access to data of other Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies at their request. The published data can be downloaded by everyone interested to facilitate reuse, linking and the creation of innovative services. Moreover, this Data Portal promotes and builds literacy around Europe’s data. The data publishers, application developers and the general public can also use new functionalities enabled by the semantic technologies.'
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The World Bank started its own open data initiative much earlier
http://data.worldbank.org/
http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog