Transcript Ring Comparison Building the List of Products

Development Data Platform
Vilas Mandlekar
DECDG
e-DevelopmentThematic Group
March 24, 2005
Agenda
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What is the Development Data Platform (DDP)?
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What is its relevance to countries, e-development,
regional organizations ?
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Quick demo of DDP
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Q&A
What is DDP ?
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DDP is a web based platform for data analysis,
presentation and dissemination, released in November 2004
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Successor to the SIMA family of applications, which are
still used in the Bank and outside, but will be phased out
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DDP is used in the Bank as a data service
 Retrieve and report both time series (macro) and
survey (micro) data
 Prepare web reports, charts and maps
 Powerful features to customize and manage reports
 Secured access
 Query system and data repository
What is DDP ?
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DDP can become part of any business process requiring
data dissemination/monitoring and analysis
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Built primarily for development data/statistics, for use in
the Bank and also by development practitioners
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Side benefit of DDP
 It is a software tool or a product
 Can be given to any country/organization for use
with their own data
What is DDP ?
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Data content -- DDP designed for storing and accessing
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Multi-dimensional data (Examples: Time series (macro)
or Survey (micro) data)
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DDP currently has time series data on socio-economic,
trade, finance etc. for many countries /sub-national
entities (Examples)
Source notes, footnotes, methodological notes
Survey data – i.e. responses to survey questionnaires
(Examples)
 Meta data, questionnaire descriptions, other
documents
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What is DDP ?
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DDP Features
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DDP is web based – currently on the intranet and
internet
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Provides data publishing and dissemination features by
other units in the Bank [Examples]
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Reports, charts and maps can be prepared by users and
saved in DDP [Examples]
 Analysis
–growth rates, trends, custom indicators etc.
What is DDP ?
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DDP Features (cont’d)
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Branding -- Other units can put their data into DDP
and use DDP engine for dissemination and creating
their “own” departmental data site [Examples]
 Integrates with other systems
 Provides significant cost savings in publishing data
reports/charts/maps on the web by content experts
 Search on surveys by topics/countries, survey data
download [Examples]
 Security
 Bank staff use the passkey to access DDP
 External secured access
 Security mechanism for survey
What is its relevance ?
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Experience with SIMA as a development data repository
 Tremendous
appetite amongst Bank staff and
development practitioners for data
 Usage stats – 45% of external traffic to the Bank is for
data (Chart)
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Numbers speak louder than descriptions
Establish targets for development indicators as in MDGs
DDP can help in monitoring progress on development
indicators
DDP can be a tool for data dissemination in countries.
Legislations in countries require data dissemination
Statistical capacity building
In conclusion..
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DDP is a data service
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DDP is a solution for data access and dissemination
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Since its release in Nov 2004
 Used in ICT, AFR, DECRG, LAC, ECA and
DECPG for disseminating their data
 QEDS was released in partnership with IMF
 MDG tool for data monitoring
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External demand -- in discussion with AfDB for
implementation of DDP
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