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Would you give up your personal data for development?

If you joined us at the World Bank for Open Data Day on Saturday, February 23, you heard about the DC Data Dive slated for March 15-17.

If you're playing catch up, read more about the plans and potential impact for future Data Dives. Also have a look at what colleagues at a Data Dive in Venice accomplished by analysing World Bank contracts and vendors. And now, read the cross-posted blog below from UNDP's Giulio Quaggiotto and World Bank's Prasanna Lal Das who ask: Would You Give Up Your Personal Data for Development?

Update: the event will be webstreamed on World Bank Live.

This is an exciting time to be in the data business. There have never been more groups, from such different backgrounds, with a passion for producing and using data for the public good.

So much data, so little evidence. So much information, yet unsatisfactory decisions...can big data change it, and how?

Are you interested in the accessibility of research, the application of data and the future of development policy? Don't miss these three events happening at the World Bank this week:

Monday 22nd at 4pm EST: The Kickoff of Open Access Week 2012
Thursday 25th at 2pm EST: "Turning Big Data into Big Impact"
Thursday 25th- Friday 26th: "Using History to Inform Development Policy"

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