| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) ; color illustrations, color maps |
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World bank flagship report |
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World Bank Group flagship report.
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| Contents |
Overview -- Part I: Advancing development objectives through data. Harnessing the value of data for the poor -- Spotlight 1: Helping communities to gain the ability to collect and analyze their own data -- Spotlight 2: The importance of good data in helping low- and middle-income countries to manage debt during and after the COVID-pandemic -- Data as a force for public good -- Spotlight 1: Deploying data to curtail violence against women and girls -- Spotlight 2: The role of international organizations in improving public intent data -- Data as a resource for the private sector -- Spotlight 1: The huge potential of open data for business applications -- Creative reuses of data for greater value -- Spotlight 1: Gathering, sharing, and using better data on weather, water, and climate from low- and middle-income countries -- Spotlight 2: Making roads safer by repurposing private intent traffic data -- Part II: Aligning data governance with the social contract. Data infrastructure policy: Ensuring equitable access for poor people and poor countries -- Spotlight 1: How the COVID-pandemic has recalibrated expectations of reasonable data consumption and highlighted the digital divide -- Spotlight 2: Data's carbon footprint -- Data policies, laws, and regulations: creating a trust environment -- Spotlight 1: The evolving social contract on data: Balancing data sharing and data protection to facilitate contact tracing to control COVID-19 -- Spotlight 2: The debate over ownership of personal data -- Creating value in the data economy: The role of competition, trade, and tax policy -- Spotlight 1: Understanding the interface between data protection and competition policy -- Spotlight 2: The role of regional and international cooperation in addressing data governance challenges -- Institutions for data governance: Building trust through collective action -- Spotlight 1: The need for a new global consensus on data: A call to action -- Spotlight 2: Promoting citizen science in the Amazon basin -- Part III: Moving toward an integrated national data system. Creating an integrated national data system |
| Summary |
"Today's unprecedented growth of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the data revolution is transforming the world. And yet much of the value of data remains untapped. Data collected for one purpose have the potential to generate economic and social value in applications far beyond those originally anticipated. But many barriers stand in the way, ranging from misaligned incentives and incompatible data systems to a fundamental lack of trust. World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the tremendous potential of the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor people, while also acknowledging its potential to open back doors that can harm individuals, businesses, and societies. To address this tension between the helpful and harmful potential of data, this Report calls for a new social contract that enables the use and reuse of data to create economic and social value, ensures equitable access to that value, and fosters trust that data will not be misused in harmful ways"--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (World Bank, viewed May 10, 2021) |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
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Big data -- Developing countries
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Economics -- Research -- Developing countries -- Methodology
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Data protection -- Developing countries
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Economic development.
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economic development.
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Information technology -- Economic aspects
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Data protection
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Big data
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Economic development
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Economics -- Research -- Methodology
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cull, Robert J., editorial director.
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Foster, Vivien, 1968- editorial director.
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Jolliffe, Dean, 1963- editorial director.
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| ISBN |
9781464816017 |
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1464816018 |
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