Open Development Roadshow in South Asia

Local languages, more poverty data, more timely data, and more information on data sources, data reliability, and the differences between World Bank data and national data. These were the comments we heard most often during visits to India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka as part of a World Bank Open Development Roadshow. The Roadshow team visited Delhi, Kathmandu, and Colombo to present Open Development, Open Data, Open Finances, Mapping for Results, and Projects and Operations data to representatives from media, civil society, government, private sector, academia, students, and researchers. The type of events ranged from roundtable and panel discussions to public forum to hands-on technical training sessions. A couple of the journalists we met filed stories immediately on what we had presented...