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by  |  on April 28th, 2010  |  1 comment

Photo Credit: World Bank

Photo Credit: World Bank

I’ve received a few requests recently for my data sources, so I thought I’d highlight Eric Green’s latest post at Change.org.  Here, he has compiled an excellent list of data sources for global health.  In particular, he highlights the open data initiative at the World Bank, which was launched last Tuesday, compiling more than 2,000 developing indicators from over 200 countries and ensuring unlimited, free access to one of the most reliable sources of development data. 

I’m most intrigued and excited about the Global Apps for Development Competition, which challenges the developer community to  build new applications, using information to enhance development.  Want to see this in action?  Check out Geo.me’s visualization application which uses Google’s visualization API to map indicators based on the available data.

 

Author

Cynthia Schweer Rayner

Cynthia Schweer Rayner is an independent consultant and philanthropy advisor specializing in public health, social entrepreneurship and scalable business models for positive social change. As a recovering management consultant, she spent several months living in South Africa, and later co-founded the US branch of an organization providing support to orphaned and vulnerable children. In 2009, she was an LGT Venture Philanthropy Fellow, working with mothers2mothers (m2m), a multinational non-profit organization employing mothers living with HIV as peer educators to positive pregnant women. She currently works with individuals, companies and nonprofits to finance and develop models for positive change. Cynthia has an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in English Literature from Georgetown University. She currently lives in Cape Town and visits New York frequently, where she co-owns a Manhattan-based yoga studio, mang'Oh yoga (www.mangohstudio.com).


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