Edouard Al-Dahdah
Senior Public Sector Specialist, Governance Practice- World Bank
Presentation Title: Big Data for Governance
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Big Data in Action: Focus on Governance
This series highlights initiatives led by the World Bank Group’s Governance global practice and by private sector organizations to utilize big data for effective governance. These interviews and case studies illustrate how non-traditional data sources and techniques can be used to improve service delivery, influence policy design, and deepen citizen engagement.
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Big Data for Governance
This video highlights how big data can be used to address complex challenges in governance.
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Big Data for Open Government
This video highlights the challenges big data can help solve in open data, open contracting and open budget initiatives.
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Social Media Analytics for better decision-making
This video gives an example of how social media data can help understand trends in citizen sentiment and citizen engagement around policy and politics.
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Using Big Data for Jobs and Skills
This video showcases how governments can use LinkedIn data to improve policy and services relating to skills and jobs.
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Leveraging Big Data to manage infrastructure investments
This video showcases how management of investments in infrastructure can be improved by using big data.
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Case Study: Harnessing Data for Enhanced Program Oversight: The Smart Supervision App
To help improve program supervision and increase understanding of reach and impact, the World Bank is creating a Smart Supervision App (SSA), allowing fiduciary and program teams, external auditors, beneficiaries and citizens to capture, report and analyze real-time project information. Read the full case study here.
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Case Study: Big Data Analytics for Improved Governance and Public Procurement in Georgia
Making Big Data Work for Governance aims to uncover and minimize corruption in tender processes, including collusion between suppliers or between a supplier and officials awarding a contract. Read the full Case Study here.
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Case Study: Understanding Drivers of Property Tax Delinquency
The Brazilian city of Manaus suffers from rates of property tax delinquency so high that the authorities collect only 50 percent of property tax due. To uncover the drivers of delinquency and opportunities for reform, this project uses Big Data to take a novel approach. Read the full case study here.
About the Presenters
Stephen Davenport
Global Lead, Open Government World Bank Group
Presentation Title: Big Data for Open Government
Solomon Messing
Director of Data Labs- Pew Research Center
Presentation Title: Social Media Analytics for better decision-making
Nicole Isaac
Head of US Public Policy- LinkedIn
Presentation Title: Using Big Data for Jobs and Skills
Kai Kaiser
Senior Economist, Global Governance Practice-World Bank
Presentation Title: Leveraging Big Data to manage infrastructure investments
Joao Vicente
Sr Financial Management Specialist
Case Study: Harnessing Data for Enhanced Program Oversight: The Smart Supervision App
Sandro Nozadze
Procurement Specialist
Case Study: Big Data Analytics for Improved Governance and Public Procurement in Georgia
