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Improving data infrastructure helps ensure equitable access for poor people in poor countries 2021 World Development Report: Data for Better Lives An explosion of data Global data traffic has increased one thousand times over the last 20 years. Data travel thousands of kilometers along this seamless global data infrastructure supply chain at breathtaking speeds of 200,000 kilometers per second—meaning that digital data can, in principle, circle the globe five times within a second. This explosion of data creates an ever-growing demand for data infrastructure. Without modern data infrastruc...

Building gender aware data systems is critical to create a level playing field for women and girls Photo: © Stephan Gladieu / World Bank To advance an affirmative answer to this question, the World Development Report (WDR) 2021: Data for Better Lives calls for a new social contract for data that ensures better representation for marginalized people. This means that data captured and analyzed in data systems reflect the needs of ALL people. While data are generally undersupplied and underused for the purposes of improving lives, they are severely undersupplied and underused for the purposes...

Building gender aware data systems are critical to create a level playing field for women and girls Photo: © Stephan Gladieu / World Bank To advance an affirmative answer to this question, the World Development Report (WDR) 2021: Data for Better Lives calls for a new social contract for data that ensures better representation for marginalized people. This means that data captured and analyzed in data systems reflect the needs of ALL people. While data are generally undersupplied and underused for the purposes of improving lives, they are severely undersupplied and underused for the purpose...

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) suffered more health and economic damage from the COVID 19 pandemic than any other region, although there is potential for significant transformation in key sectors as the region begins to rebound, according to a new World Bank Report. Because of the pandemic, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Latin America and Caribbean region (excluding Venezuela) fell 6.7% in 2020. A return to growth of 4.4% is expected in 2021. That compares to the Bank's late 2020 forecast of a 7.9% GDP decline in 2020, and 4% expansion in 2021. The immense disruption from the pand...

North Africa hit by brain drain of ICT graduates According to a the World Bank’s World Development Report 2021: Data for better lives, the main cause of migration of ICT professionals from North African countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, is economic, since the loss of talent is being linked to the huge wage gaps that exist between high- and low-income countries. “Given salary differentials of five to 10 times between data scientists in low- and high-income countries, it is estimated that workers with these skills in low-income countries are 33% more likely to m...