Geo-Enabling International Development - Blue Raster Esri UC 2011 Presentation

Geo-Enabling International Development
Capacity is the Barrier to Transparency
Stephen Ansari
Blue Raster LLC
@sansari22
sansari@blueraster.com

Why not Budget Transparency?
The story of two countries with controversial record on budget transparency:
Kenya and Moldova
Capacity, not political resistance to openness.

BOOST initiative
Once those barriers to data collection were removed through the BOOST initiative,the two governments have rapidly warmed up to the idea of making all this data public.
As a result, they became almost overnight two of the most transparent countries in the world.

Moldova
Kenya
Peru

www.opendata.go.ke
Kenya Open Data Initiative - July 7th

Showing flow of Domestic Spending

Spending and Expenditures Per Capita

Comparing Spending over Time

Many Indicators and other Comparators

Explore data beyond geography

Sorting, Filtering, Pivot Tables

Export Results into Table

What is the Success Story?
BOOST is:
Repeatable
Useable
Timely
Flexible
Comprehensive
Effective
Transparent

…and it is spreading
Latvia
Poland
Moldova
Romania
Bulgaria
Azerbaijan
El Salvador
Uganda
Kenya
Peru

Geo-Enabling International Development
Capacity is the Barrier to Transparency
Stephen Ansari
Blue Raster LLC
@sansari22
sansari@blueraster.com
Massimo Mastruzzi
World Bank Institute
kenya.wb-boost.org
mmastruzzi@worldbank.org

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