The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recently launched its open data portal called “Numbers for Development”. In previous blog posts we have already told you how to use the portal’s tools and how to create your own visualizations. This time, we want to show you how to filter and export data in different formats. These functions are important for you to have the flexibility … [Read more...] about How to filter and export data in the IDB Open Data Portal
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This tag brings together all the articles in Abierto al Público that provide "how-to" guidelines to achieve knowledge goals or to promote the dissemination of open knowledge. These are articles that facilitate the understanding of more complex topics related to open knowledge, and that present information in a timely and easy manner.
How to create your own visualizations in the IDB open data portal
Leer blogpost en español This is the second blogpost of the series of tutorials on “Numbers for Development” By María Violeta Bertolini, Embedded librarian for the Institutions for Development Sector and member of the reference team at the Felipe Herrera Library of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) As we announced in our previous blogpost, the Inter-American … [Read more...] about How to create your own visualizations in the IDB open data portal
4-step guide for public sector open innovation
Leer blogpost en español By Sandford Borins, Professor of Public Management in the University of Toronto Public sector innovation – once dismissed as a contradiction in terms – is being seen increasingly as an imperative. It has become the topic of many recent conferences, such as the one from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on … [Read more...] about 4-step guide for public sector open innovation
How can design thinking promote innovation in development?
Leer blogpost en Español By Suzi Sosa, Co-Founder and CEO of Verb A development project in Zambia wants to improve family planning and contraception use among young girls. This is not an unusual development problem, and could be approached with many standardized solutions. But, what if we wanted better outcomes? At lower cost? How we would solve it then? Design … [Read more...] about How can design thinking promote innovation in development?
4 tips to create a good knowledge repository
Español It is estimated that there are 1.8M scientific articles published every year, but about half aren’t read by anyone except the reviewers and editor. Either 50% of research is worthless (and thus 50% of funding misspent), or we have a serious discovery problem. Many public and private institutions are increasingly seeing the importance of the web for distributing … [Read more...] about 4 tips to create a good knowledge repository