World Bank Commits to Greater Access to Information on the Policy's Fifth Anniversary

"The World Bank’s Access to Information (AI) Policy and Open Data Initiative launched five years ago, with more than 6.1 million documents and reports downloaded and over 18,000 development indicators made available, thereby spreading the organization’s wealth of operational information, research, statistics, and data on development challenges around the globe ... For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, the Documents & Reports database received more than 2.4 million visits, and users viewed approximately 8 million pages and downloaded close to 1.6 million documents. During the same period, over 65 million visits were made to the Data websites with more than 250 million page views.  Similarly, building on the AI Policy and the Open Data Initiative, the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR), launched in 2012, reached more than 7 million downloads. The OKR is governed by the Open Access Policy, which was approved in July 2012, requiring that all Bank research outputs and knowledge products be made freely available. The World Bank is also integrating its efforts with partnerships and collaborating with governments to help them become open and engage in meaningful dialogue with communities. ..."