World Bank Annual Meetings

This weekend the World Bank hosted their Spring Meetings. As part of the event, the World Bank Institute extended the Mapping for Results to move beyond the in-depth maps and data to tell stories around development objectives and measured outputs. You can see the new homepage and stories by visiting maps.worldbank.org.

In addition, the World Bank is actively working to distribute the open data and maps across their numerous and growing open data portals. You can now find country project maps on each countries page of the World Bank Data catalog. These provide quick and up to date views of where the World Bank is actively working in countries with the abiity to drill down by region, sector and compare with numerous indicators to measure potential impact.

Beyond the 144 countries now hosted and published through the World Bank’s maps, there will be more individual projects and more local stories and perspectives beginning to be published. You can subscribe to updates at Mapping for Results or explore your own ability to combine the World Bank data with other indicators on our free GeoCommons community site.