Dear All Greetings from the GIPE Library! The World Bank, New Delhi in partnership with Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) is organizing one day workshop on Open Data Development Initiatives on 17 May 2013 from 10:00 am - 04:00 pm. Transparency, accountability and citizen participation are all at the forefront of the World Bank’s citizen-centered development approach called Open Development. The primary principle of the Open Development initiative is Open Data and Knowledge, Open Operations and Tools and open solutions. The Bank facilitates all interested parties with accessible, easy-to-use data, and with unprecedented access to other information and documents. Broad access to these data allows citizens, CSOs, policy makers, advocacy groups and other stakeholders to make better-informed decisions and to measure improvements more accurately. The World Bank’s Access to Information (AI) Policy represents a fundamental shift in the Bank’s approach to making information publicly available. It recognizes the centrality of transparency and accountability to the development process and includes principled commitments to strengthen public ownership and oversight of Bank-financed operations. This workshop has thus been planned to share details of the Bank’s Open Development Agenda access to information policy. We hope this interaction will enable you and your associates to use these Open Data Tools to access timely and relevant information about the Bank’s Operations and use development data in different formats for your research purposes. Please note that there is no Registration Fee. You are requested to attend the workshop along with your Faculties / Research Scholars. In order to allow us to make appropriate logistic arrangements, please confirm the participation on or before 14 May 2013. Please note that the Participation is only by confirmation. For Registration Form and any other queries please contact us at gipelibrary@gmail.com or talk to us at 020 25679940 or 0 9423531433 (Dr Nanaji Shewale) or 0 9763740109 (Ms Shilpa Kad) or 0 9960613527 (Ms Manisha Shinde) Best Regards, Dr Nanaji Shewale Librarian and Workshop Coordinator Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics B M C C Road, Deccan Gymkhana Pune 411004 (India) T: 91 20 25679940 (Direct) T: 91 20 25654288, 25650287 Ext 401 http://www.gipe.ac.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.