Re: World Bank opens up data and developer API

From: John Fereira <jaf30_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:59:23 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Roy Tennant wrote:
> Seen via my colleague Stu Weibel:*
>
> April 20, 2010*—The World Bank Group said today it will offer free access to
> more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development
> statistics that had mostly been available only to paying subscribers.
>
> The decision─part of a larger effort to increase access to information at
> the World Bank─means that researchers, journalists, nongovernmental
> organizations (NGOs), entrepreneurs and school children alike will be able
> to tap into the World Bank's databases via a new website, data.worldbank.org.
> <*http://data.worldbank.org*>
I heard about and took at list site yesterday.  It's done using Drupal 
and apparently by the same folkes that developed the FeedApi and Feeds 
modules (DevelopmentSeed).  In any case, it's a really impressive site.

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Received on Thu Apr 22 2010 - 13:00:45 EDT