e-Development - Live Webcast

Open data in the corporate world: Why is it important? Where are the problems? How do we solve them?

We live in an data-driven and corporate world, with the corporate structures becoming increasingly complex, and corporate governance becoming increasingly weak. From corruption to jurisdiction shopping, money laundering to the extractive industries, tax evasion to political influence, the ability and incentives for companies to be used as a vehicle for bad rather than good has never been greater.

Yet the ability of civil society, journalists, anti-corruption investigators, and governments to understand this still is massively hampered by lack of access to even the most basic types of company data. As a new report, The Closed World of Company Data published last week by OpenCorporates, makes it clear - this is true even of countries that are members of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), one of whose 5 grand goals is "Increasing Corporate Accountability".

On average OGP countries scored just 21 out of a possible 100 points when rated upon open access to data held by company registers (including Spain, Greece and Brazil scoring zero). This event will analyze the importance of open data in corporate world - where the problems are and how we solve them - and its implications to our development work.

Chris Taggart, Co-Founder, OpenCorporates

Chris Taggart is the co-founder of OpenCorporates, the largest open database of companies in the world. Just 15 months old, OpenCorporates has grown to over 40 million companies in over 50 jurisdictions, and is also working with many governmental organizations to improve access and quality of company data (for example, they are on the Financial Stability Board's advisory panel on G-20 Global Legal Entity Identifier program).

You are cordially invited to watch a live webcast and participate in a liveblog with Tariq Khokhar during an event at the World Bank about the new Open Government Partnership (OGP). The OGP (http://www.opengovpartnership.org ), launched on September 2011 under the leadership of the eight founding countries, is a multilateral, multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to enhance transparency, participation and collaboration between governments and civil society. Since its launching, membership has increased to over 50 countries.

October 3, 2011: Seminar on Open Government Data in Developing countries: The Case of Kenya and Moldova

Recorded webcast (video), WB Live (blog), Slides etc, Twitter coverage (#opendata103)

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Jan. 21, 2011: Moldova-India Dialogue on e-Transformation Powerpoint slides used by Moldova speakers

Jan. 20, 2011: Mobile Applications: Case Studies and Business Model Analysis

Session 2: Agriculture and Rural Development Sector: Case studies are from Kenya, Philippines and Sri Lanka

December 9, 2010: TXT Eagle - Revolutionary approach to directly engage 2.1 billion people with mobile texting (View Presentation and recorded webcast)

October 18, 2010: Open Government Data Workshop. View Webcast Recording.Make comments on Twitter (hashtag is #OGD-MD). Event website.

September 9 2010: Workshop on Government Cloud: Transformational Enabler for Efficiency and Better Services. see event website with all materials

February 3, 2010: Singapore ICT Day for South Asia - The Singapore Experience - Ingredients for Successful Nation-wide eTransformation. Event Page: http://go.worldbank.org/GXNX9ZH450

June 16, 2009: ICTs for Women's Empowerment This workshop focused on the inequality of access to ICTs and the usage of ICTs. Recorded webcast can be accessed here

May 28: e-Sri Lanka: Transforming a Nation with ICT. 9:00-12:00 pm ET. Recorded webcast is available here (scroll down the page): http://vcg01.worldbank.org/eDev

May 7: Service Delivery & Electronic Identification (eID ). 8 am - 1:50 pm ET. Event details..

April 17: Open Standards for Government Transformation: Enabling transparency, security and interoperability. This webcast has been archived at these links: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 (Real Media version) and here (scroll to last page for Starbak Windows Media version at 56 kbs bitrate, with chat and slide show).

Jan 29, 2009: International Good Practice for Establishment of Sustainable IT Parks
Review of experiences in select countries, including three country case studies: Vietnam, Russia, and Jordan. To learn more, click here

Dec 22: Мобильные сервисы в государственном секторе: Уроки международного и российского опыта

Windows Media (public access, low-speed with chat and slides, scroll down to last page)

Oct. 8, 2008: 12:15 – 1:30 pm Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment (CAPRA)—Brown Bag Luncheon seminar

October 8, 2008, 2 pm – 6 pm The World Bank’s Expanding Role in Disaster Risk Reduction

Sep. 15, 2008: Dialogue mondial sur les TIC et les populations handicapées -Preparer les populations handicapees a l’Age de l’Information: Etude de cas autour d’un projet sur le e-Handicap en Tunisie, u ne composante de l'Unite de Gestion du Projet de Developpement du Secteur des TIC. Le webcast accessible depuis les liens suivants:

July 29, 2008: Government 2.0 and Beyond:The Next Generation of Government Transformation.

Windows Media (low-speed with chat and slides, external access) - scroll down to last page

Technical requirements

- 350MHz Intel Pentium II processor or equivalent
- 64MB of RAM(128MB on Windows XP or later)
- 52MB available disk space
- 28.8Kbps modem (audio only)
- 16-bit sound card and speakers
- 65,000-color video display card set to display at 800x600 (video)
- Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 or later, or Windows XP (we heard that Macs work too!)
- IE 5.0 or later

Flash Player webcast can be played on Windows, Mac, or UNIX computers with the Adobe Flash player installed. The users can download it from the Adobe Website:

The browser should have a Pop-up Blocker disabled (in the Internet Explorer 7/8 select Tools - Pop-up Blocker - Turn Off ..).

The users can play Flash video in a full screen. These are the instructions for the Internet Explorer 7/8 (similar instructions could be used for other browsers): click on the webcast link, select the video window and press F11 on the keyboard, then at the right lower corner click on the arrow down and select 400%, but in this case your video could stop for buffering more often or even stuck. In this case close it and click on the link again.

Other Resources

Live Webcast

July 29, 2008: Government 2.0 and Beyond:The Next Generation of Government Transformation.

Technical requirements