Aleem Walji: Presentation to the European Commission

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Aleem Walji, Head of Innovation at the World Bank Institute

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"Every time we protect our ideas we pay an implicit innovation tax. We must let them go, circulate, and collide with other ideas."

Stephen Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From

“No Matter Who You Are, Most of the Smartest People Work for Someone Else”

Bill Joy, Cofounder, Sun Microsystems

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Open Development, Open Government, Open Solutions Requires a New Way of Doing Business

FROMClosed

We can do it Single leadersHierarchical

LinearClients as recipients

TO

Open Collaborative CommunityNetworked

LateralClients as co-creators

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The World is Changing: SoLoMo

Social

Local

Mobile

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Amplifying Citizen Voices Via ICTs• Geo-Reference with

categories (Health, Water etc having different dots);

• Timeline indicating response times;

• Bubble with location names getting bigger depending on veracity of problems reported;

• Flagging: of actions with delayed response (red) & (green) for efficiency.

• Budget Layer: tagging project, concerns with budget information

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Disaster Relief has changed Crisis Mapping brings online tool to Haitian disaster relief effort

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Mobile Tools for Multi- Sector Analysis

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Problem

Public services are failing the poor

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To improve the delivery and quality of public services and enhance accountability using ICT enabled citizen engagement.

Objective

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Opportunity

Citizens Listening Tools Are Spreading in All Sectors

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Approach

TransparencyParticipation

Accountability

“Listening” tools

Mobiles, Social, Geo

Collaborative Governance

Open Government/D

ata

Improved Public

Services

Demand Supply

Demand/Supply Converge

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Entry Point

cCity and local governments are a key entry point

for citizen voice and impact in public services.

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Infrastructure

opendta.org

Knowledge People Tools

How-to Notes, Research, Case Studies, TORs, Primers…

Expert Consultants, Partnerships, Community

Know-how, facilitation, and Appstore

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1. Improve Project Planning

Better targeting of schools based on needs

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2. Enhance Project Implementation

Philippines: checkmyschool.orgANSA Network “Check My School” project

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3. Visualizing project results

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4. Enhance Tracking of Results

Benefits

- Target activities to regions with most need

- Promote synergies between components (Electrification and Telecomms)

- Verify that services were provided

- Monitor project results and impact

- Transparency and social accountability

Bolivia: Decentralized Infrastructure for Rural Transformation Project

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5: Verify Assets in Rural Transport projectsthrough Real-time data

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6. Empowering Citizens to provide feedback PNPM Indonesia Project

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Open Aid Partnership

1. Geo-coding of donor-financed projects based on IATI standard

2. Joint Open Aid Map for better aid coordination (AidData)

3. Visualize projects of 27 donors combined with poverty data

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Increase Aid Transparency and Citizen Engagement for Better Results

• Improve Aid Transparency: increase transparency through Open Data on aid flows

• Enhance Results: Better target, monitor, and coordinate aid flows within countries

• Establish Feedback Loop: Empower citizens and CSOs to provide feedback on project outcomes

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Crowdsourcing asserts that two heads are better

than one, and a

thousand heads are better than two.

Competition Platform

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CurateKnowledge & Learning

CreateInnovation & Action

Procurement ChallengeDevelopment Marketplace

Apps for Development

Grand Challenges

Organization Best Practice

Innovation Fund

Competitions can be used for both Knowledge and Innovation

INTENTION

KNOWLEDGE

ConcentratedInside the Organization

DistributedOutside the Organization

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Development MarketplaceScaling Public Goods Through Private Actors

High Social Impact

Scalable

Appeals to Philanthropies and

Public Actors

Sweet Spot

The World Bank has a mandate to invest where financial investors will not

Commercially Viable

Appeals to Financial investors