How Digitalization Can Enhance Economic Resilience
The COVID-19 crisis has opened deep economic scars, leading to significant output losses. Can digitalization improve economic resilience to shocks such as the pandemic?
Using Mobility Data to Improve Lives in Lima
Improving traffic flow and enhancing road safety are critical to Lima which was ranked the fourth most congested metropolitan area in the world in 2022.
Assessing Traffic Congestion and Accessibility to Jobs Using Waze for Cities and Mapbox Data
Traffic congestion and suburbanization are becoming increasingly significant factors affecting urban mobility and limiting access to jobs and opportunities in most mid-sized cities worldwide.
Development Data Partnership 2023 Year in Review
It has been an extraordinary year for the Development Data Partnership. Before we start the new year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect and look back on what we have accomplished in 2023.
Assessing Digital Transformation in Firms in Latin America and the Caribbean
Are firms in Latin America and the Caribbean lagging in terms of their adoption of digital technologies?
Analyzing Digital Skills Gap in MENA Countries to Inform An Upskilling Initiative
Digital technologies are reshaping work and traditional jobs. It is essential for workers across all sectors to acquire and strengthen their digital skills to stay competitive in the job market.
Inferring COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes from X
Social media has become a platform for the public to openly advocate and express their opinions on various issues including health.
Understanding Informal Trade Dynamics in Benin
Benin’s trade performance has been improving gradually in the past decade. Notably, informal trade, smuggling and small-scale cross border trade (SSCBT) are part of the large unrecorded trade dynamics in this African country.
Maldives Development Update (April 2021): A Digital Dawn
Authors for the special focus topic (Part B) on digital development: Gohar Malumyan, Junko Narimatsu and Pui Shen Yoong, with guidance from Siddhartha Raja and Fernando Im.
Is El Salvador's health care system ready for telemedicine?
The World Bank’s Digital Economy for Latin America (DE4LAC) initiative leveraged data from Ookla for Good™ to analyze El Salvador’s telecommunication network to understand to what extent the national healthcare system could leverage the existing digital infrastructure and develop e-health applications.
LinkedIn Data Reveals How Labor Markets Have Been Changing in Latin America and the Caribbean Since the Pandemic
Despite the devastating economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are on the verge of recovery.
Insights from Leveraging Big Data to Track the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mobility in Buenos Aires
How did the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures affect mobility in cities around the globe?
Analyzing the Evolution of Telework Adoption in Latin America and the Caribbean
Due to the COVID pandemic, the use of telework increased rapidly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, as it did globally.
Green Jobs for Women and Diverse Groups Help Promote Equality and Climate Resilience
The role of women and diverse populations, including indigenous peoples, persons of African descent, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ persons, is crucial in driving the decarbonization process and developing climate change resilience strategies.
How Big Data and Machine Learning Can Strengthen Road Safety
High-quality and reliable data is necessary to gain useful, actionable insights and enhance road safety conditions.
Why We Should Accelerate the Use of Digital Technologies in Africa
As Africa’s population grows, digital technologies are becoming increasingly important for the continent’s economic transformation and job creation.
Reaching Digital Deserts – Extending Access to Broadband Has Never Been So Important
The internet is crucial for us to access information, services, job opportunities, education, and more. However, while urban communities flourish in the online world, many rural communities have been left behind when it comes to ensuring fast and reliable internet access.
Development Data Partnership Day 2023
Join us for the Development Data Partnership Day on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, from 9:00 a.
For Reduced Exposure to COVID-19, the Quality of Your Internet Matters
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments-imposed movement restrictions to curb the spread of the disease.
The Effects of City Growth on Traffic and Urban Mobility
The Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca has been deeply affected by urban sprawl, which has strained the city’s traffic system and caused increased congestion on roadways.
Heatwaves Data Collaborative
The Heatwaves Data Collaborative knits together efforts by international organizations, private firms, and researchers to develop standard datasets and methodologies for identifying and mitigating the urgent socio-economic impacts of heatwaves.
Development Data Partnership Day 2022
This day is dedicated to addressing global climate, health, and food security challenges through public-private data science collaboration.
Buenos Aires Transport Demand Planning
Challenge The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures implemented in 2020 had a significant impact on mobility in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), adding new constrains to the travel behaviours of residents and businesses.
Where Did Everyone Go? Potential of Digital Movement Data for Natural Hazards Management
Every September 19th since the great earthquake of 1985, Mexico City conducts a major drill: people filing out of buildings in an orderly fashion.
A Data-Driven Framework to Support Bogota’s Barrios Vitales Project
A data-driven framework to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of a superblock model in Bogotá from a speed management perspective and inform street design alternatives in the urban space.
Understanding Societal Responses to Policies Undertaken During Emergencies: Lessons from COVID-19’s Second Wave in Maharashtra
Maharashtra, one of the wealthiest states in India, was among the worst hit by COVID-19, registering nearly 140,000 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Visualizing Millions of Waze Traffic Alerts with BigQuery, H3 and Dask
Waze for Cities, a Data Partner of the Development Data Partnership, connects government partners to high quality, frequent and granular traffic data extremely valuable in informing public sector, transport and urban planning as well as addressing the United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Understanding the Post COVID-19 Labor Market in Latin America and the Caribbean
Challenge The Covid-19 Labor Markets Observatory, managed by the Inter-American Development Bank Labor Markets Division, aimed to understand how COVID-19 has affected labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Digitalization and Resilience to COVID-19 Shocks: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Challenge The COVID-19 pandemic has brought major disruption to economic activities and human welfare across the world.
Unlocking Mobility: TapTap Maps in Cap-Haïtien
Challenge Haitian cities suffer from poor transportation services, and the lack of data from existing services limits improvement efforts.
Improving Public Space and Market Design During COVID-19
Lima’s Central Market has always been one of the busiest and liveliest in Lima, Peru. Before the pandemic, some hundreds of people gathered there to buy and sell groceries, clothes, electronics–you name it.
The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures on Internet Speed
COVID-19 and the related lockdown measures to prevent the virus’ spread have highlighted how important it is for everyone to have access to reliable and resilient digital infrastructure.
Optimizing Tourism Investments: Identifying Chokepoints and Underperforming Minor Roads in Sri Lanka
Challenge Connected and maintained transportation infrastructure are critical to sustainable economic development, but most current estimation methods of road quality are labor, time, and cost intensive.
Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19 in Indonesia
Challenge Although there is a widespread awareness of the pandemic, there is a lack of understanding from citizens’ perspective, especially behaviors it triggers, sentiments towards government as well as rising concerns.
A Light Primer to Spark / Databricks
Databricks is a powerful platform for using Spark, a powerful data technology. If you’re reading this, you’re likely a Python or R developer who begins their Spark journey to process large datasets.
Estimating High-speed Broadband Coverage in Ukraine
Challenge Ukraine, Europe’s biggest country, has over 1,192 operators and providers, of which close to three quarters operate under a special preferential tax regime, allowing them not to report their coverage/subscription data to the national telecom regulatory authority.
2020 Inspire Challenge Finalist - The ClimaCell Locust Project
Ag Observatory in collaboration with the World Bank Data Lab guided and facilitated Climacell’s entry into the CGIAR Big Data Inspire Challenge 2020.
Mapbox Releases a New Movement Dataset for Mobility Insights
Following the Development Data Partnership launch event at the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings, Mapbox announced a new dataset on movement data for mobility insights.
Data Partnership: Bridging the Data Gap for Public Good
Download Event Program High frequency, timely, and granular information – which is routinely collected by the private sector–can help inform public policy and service delivery.
Introducing the Data Partnership on GitHub
After launching in 2019, when the Inter-American Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund joined the initiave, the Development Data Partnership has scaled up fast, with more than 100 projects having been brought to life supported by partnerships with more than 20 companies.
Leveraging New Data Methods to Address an Ancient Challenge: Locusts
Challenge: The worst locust upsurge in at least 25 years is hitting parts of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Western Asia, and over 40 million people who are already food insecure find their food supply and livelihoods threatened.
Estimating Access to Employment Opportunities in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Challenge: Poor transport facilities and infrastructure are a major hindrance to Bangladesh’s economic development. The road network in Dhaka is severely congested.
Improving Road Safety in Nairobi
“Data Partnership brings domain expertise. Google brings data expertise. Together we impact real world problems.”
On Responsible Data Use
As we develop the Data Partnership, we have a responsibility to the people impacted by our initiative – to local governments and partners, and to our own organizations – to think about how we are collecting, using, storing, and sharing information.
Mapping Freetown Transit for Resiliency
Challenge: The resiliency of a transport network is a critical component to the stability and prosperity of a city.
Why Data Partnership?
Should the private sector ever share data with the public sector, even if for public good?
Data Partner Lightning Talks
On February 13, 2019, the Data Partnership (formerly Data Collaboratives), for the first time, brought together Partners and staff.