Understanding Societal Responses to Policies Undertaken During Emergencies: Lessons from COVID-19’s Second Wave in Maharashtra
Case Study Outlogic SpaceKnow Health Disaster Risk Management Urban Development COVID-19Maharashtra, 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
Tutorial Waze Transport Urban DevelopmentWaze 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
LinkedIn Jobs and Development COVID-19Challenge 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
Ookla Digital DevelopmentChallenge The COVID-19 pandemic has brought major disruption to economic activities and human welfare across the world. Despite the pandemic’s late arrival, Sub-Saharan African countries were faced with unprecedented challenges to contain the spread of the pandemic and mitigate the damage to the economy.
Facebook’s Covid-19 Trends and Impact Survey
Facebook Health COVID-19With as many as 8 vaccines approved for use around the world the most urgent need now to control the spread of the novel coronavirus is increasing vaccination rates.
Unlocking Mobility: TapTap Maps in Cap-Haïtien
WhereIsMyTransport TransportChallenge Haitian cities suffer from poor transportation services, and the lack of data from existing services limits improvement efforts. Tap Taps are the most popular motorized transportation mode employed across Haiti, yet there is not enough data on them as they are informal, private, and marginally regulated.
Improving Public Space and Market Design During COVID-19
Veraset Urban Development COVID-19Lima’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
Ookla Digital Development COVID-19COVID-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
Mapbox TransportChallenge: 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
Premise Health PovertyChallenge: 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
TutorialDatabricks 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
Ookla Digital DevelopmentChallenge: 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
Tomorrow Agriculture and Food Climate ChangeAg Observatory in collaboration with the World Bank Data Lab guided and facilitated Climacell’s entry into the CGIAR Big Data Inspire Challenge 2020.
Analyzing Spatial Accessibility of Health Facilities in Indonesia and Philippines
Facebook Mapbox Health TransportChallenge: Indonesia and the Philippines are archipelagos, where geographic and administrative boundaries are similar. The collection of islands is home to different concentrations of ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic groups, with an imbalanced distribution of health facilities and physicians.
Mapbox Releases a New Movement Dataset for Mobility Insights
Announcement MapboxFollowing 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
AnnouncementDownload Event Program High frequency, timely, and granular information – which is routinely collected by the private sector–can help inform public policy and service delivery.
Tackling COVID-19 Second Wave using Facebook Mobility Data in Vietnam
Facebook Transport COVID-19Challenge: On July 24, after 99 days of zero community-transmitted COVID-19 infections, a 57 year-old man tested positive in Danang, a major city in central Vietnam with close to 1.
Introducing the Data Partnership on GitHub
AnnouncementAfter 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
Tomorrow Agriculture and FoodChallenge: 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.
How to Find Population Movement Data for Your Country: The Mobile Location Data Inventory
Announcement Facebook Veraset Unacast Cuebiq OutlogicAs the COVID-19 pandemic continues, so have measures to mitigate its spread. Physical distancing and movement restrictions – such as school and workplace closures, public event cancellations, stay-at-home orders, and international and domestic travel bans – vary considerably across countries.
Google, Apple, and Facebook: Understanding Mobility during Social Distancing with Private Sector Data
Facebook Google TransportAs countries around the world work to contain the spread and impact of COVID-19, the World Bank Group is moving quickly to provide fast, flexible responses to help developing countries strengthen their pandemic response and health care systems.
Addressing COVID-19 through Public-Private Data Partnerships: Where Do We Put New Testing Facilities?
Facebook Mapbox Health COVID-19Background As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, the World Bank is ramping up its response to help countries around the world. The Bank recently announced $14 billion emergency support program, for which a key pillar is to help countries strengthen their capacity to monitor and respond to the spread of the virus.
A New Predictive Model for More Accurate Electrical Grid Mapping
Facebook EnergyChallenge: When planning connectivity deployments in emerging markets, it is important to have a clear picture of where existing power lines are placed.
Estimating Access to Employment Opportunities in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mapbox Jobs and DevelopmentChallenge: Poor transport facilities and infrastructure are a major hindrance to Bangladesh’s economic development. The road network in Dhaka is severely congested.
Tackling the Global Profitarchy–Gender and the Choice of Business Sector
Facebook Gender Jobs and DevelopmentChallenge: Despite significant progress in women’s educational attainment and higher female labor force participation rates in many countries, progress in closing the gender pay gap, which takes the ratio of median earnings of all women to all men, has been slow.
Improving Road Safety in Nairobi
Waze TransportChallenge: Kenya has one of the highest estimated crash fatality rates worldwide but is challenged to address the problem without adequate data.
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
WhereIsMyTransport Disaster Risk Management TransportChallenge: The resiliency of a transport network is a critical component to the stability and prosperity of a city. Freetown, prone to flooding and landslides, struggles to maintain services throughout the year.
Why Data Partnership?
Should the private sector ever share data with the public sector, even if for public good? Well, it depends. Most of us are in agreement that when companies collect our data as a natural by-product of providing a service – like our movement data or spending patterns – the company shouldn’t sell these data to a third party for profit, especially without transparency.
Data Partner Lightning Talks
AnnouncementOn February 13, 2019, the Data Partnership (formerly Data Collaboratives), for the first time, brought together Partners and staff. More than 200 colleagues joined the standing-room-only event, in person and online, learning about how private data partnerships can be made to work for public good.