Building High-Capacity Partnerships: From Contests to a Lifecycle of Open Data Co-Creation | Promoting Information and Communications for Development (IC4D)

"This spring the World Bank will partner with the Government of Moldova and a range of stakeholders to organize a competitive Open Innovation Hackathon focused on the reuse of open data in Moldova. This is more than just another apps competition, which generate both enthusiasm and skepticism for their ability to promote innovative and sustainable reuse of open data. Our aim is to help build a high-capacity ecosystem around Moldova’s open data. Working with data is hard - and the Bank has a real opportunity to help foster long-term capacity within countries and communities to better leverage open data for faster innovation and smarter development...."