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Light Every Night – New nighttime light data set and tools for development
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The power was out again. Sitting in a darkened room in western Senegal, the man talked happily about how the arrival of electricity a decade ago had transformed life in the village of Gaouane. But becoming accustomed to reliable electricity had an unexpected downside: “Now when the power goes out, it feels even darker than before we had electricity!” The World Bank and its partners have been at the forefront of this charge. Supported by an early World Bank Innovations Fund grant, Kwawu Gaba and Brian Min compared ground-based data from hundreds of West African villages, including in Gaouane, against nighttime satellite imagery. This was the first study to directly detect rural electrification at the village level using satellite imagery.