{"id":463845,"date":"2011-07-19T08:55:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T08:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/19\/world-bank-launches-open-financial-data-portal\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T08:55:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T08:55:37","slug":"world-bank-launches-open-financial-data-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/world-bank-launches-open-financial-data-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank launches open financial data portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"55.5371681416\">\n<p>You Are Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/ict\/\" title=\"View all posts in ICT\" rel=\"category tag\">ICT<\/a> \u00bb World Bank launches open financial data portal<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Page last updated at Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:08 AM \/\/ <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/world-bank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2114\" title=\"world-bank\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/world-bank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>The World Bank is giving access to its financial data to the public by launching a new open data website known as the World Bank Finances website (<a href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/news\/wb-opens-financial-data-with-launch-of-web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">finances.worldbank.org<\/a>) which is the newest addition to the Bank\u2019s open data website.<\/p>\n<p>The web portal makes the its financials available in a social, interactive, visually compelling, and machine-readable format, the Bank says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new site lets people do things they\u2019ve never been able to do before with our data, such as find in an instant where we\u2019ve disbursed money and then visualize that information,\u201d said Chuck McDonough, the World Bank\u2019s Vice President and Controller in a statement copied to ghanabusinessnews.com from the Ghana Country Office.<\/p>\n<p>The statement indicates that the World Bank Finances features data-sets that cover portions of the Bank\u2019s investments, the assets it manages on behalf of global funds, and the Bank\u2019s own financial statements.<\/p>\n<p>By Ekow Quandzie<\/p>\n<h4>Comments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/07\/19\/world-bank-launches-open-financial-data-portal\/\" title=\"World Bank launches open financial data portal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Bank launches open financial data portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> You Are Here: Home \u00bb ICT \u00bb World Bank launches open financial data portal Page last updated at Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:08 AM \/\/ The World Bank is giving access to its financial data to the public by launching a new open data website known as the World Bank Finances website ( finances.worldbank.org ) which is the newest addition to the Bank\u2019s open data website. The web portal makes the its financials available in a social, interactive, visually compelling, and machine-readable format, the Bank says. \u201cThe new site lets people do things they\u2019ve never been able to do before with our data, such as find in an instant where we\u2019ve disbursed money and then visualize that information,\u201d said Chuck McDonough, the World Bank\u2019s Vice President and Controller in a statement copied to ghanabusinessnews.com from the Ghana Country Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World Bank launches open financial data portal - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/world-bank-launches-open-financial-data-portal\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"World Bank launches open financial data portal - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"You Are Here: Home \u00bb ICT \u00bb World Bank launches open financial data portal Page last updated at Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:08 AM \/\/ The World Bank is giving access to its financial data to the public by launching a new open data website known as the World Bank Finances website ( finances.worldbank.org ) which is the newest addition to the Bank\u2019s open data website. 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