Development Data Platform

Vilas MandlekarDECDG

e-DevelopmentThematic GroupMarch 24, 2005

What is the Development Data Platform (DDP)? What is its relevance to countries, e-development,

regional organizations ? Quick demo of DDP Q & A

Agenda

What is DDP ?

DDP is a web based platform for data analysis, presentation and dissemination, released in November 2004

Successor to the SIMA family of applications, which are still used in the Bank and outside, but will be phased out

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 ?

DDP can become part of any business process requiring data dissemination/monitoring and analysis

Built primarily for development data/statistics, for use in the Bank and also by development practitioners

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 ? Data content -- DDP designed for storing and accessing

Multi-dimensional data (Examples: Time series (macro) or Survey (micro) data)

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

What is DDP ?

DDP Features

DDP is web based – currently on the intranet and internet

Provides data publishing and dissemination features by other units in the Bank [Examples]

Reports, charts and maps can be prepared by users and saved in DDP [Examples]

Analysis –growth rates, trends, custom indicators etc.

What is DDP ?

DDP Features (cont’d)

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 ?

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)

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..

DDP is a data service

DDP is a solution for data access and dissemination

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

External demand -- in discussion with AfDB for implementation of DDP

Examples

Back

Examples

Back

Examples

Back

Examples

Back

Examples

Back

Examples

Back

Examples

Back

0

2000000

4000000

6000000

8000000

10000000

12000000

14000000

2002 2003 2004

Web Page Views Users