World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives
- Length: 350 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: World Bank
- Publication Date: 2021-04-30
- ISBN-10: 146481600X
- ISBN-13: 9781464816000
- Sales Rank: #3224635 (See Top 100 Books)
Today’s unprecedented growth of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the data revolution is transforming the world. And yet much of the value of data remains untapped. Data collected for one purpose have the potential to generate economic and social value in applications far beyond those originally anticipated. But many barriers stand in the way, ranging from misaligned incentives and incompatible data systems to a fundamental lack of trust. World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the tremendous potential of the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor people, while also acknowledging its potential to open back doors that can harm individuals, businesses, and societies. To address this tension between the helpful and harmful potential of data, this Report calls for a new social contract that enables the use and reuse of data to create economic and social value, ensures equitable access to that value, and fosters trust that data will not be misused in harmful ways.
This Report begins by assessing how better use and reuse of data can enhance the design of public policies, programs, and service delivery, as well as improve market efficiency and job creation through private sector growth. Because better data governance is key to realizing this value, the Report then looks at how infrastructure policy, data regulation, economic policies, and institutional capabilities enable the sharing of data for their economic and social benefits, while safeguarding against harmful outcomes. The Report concludes by pulling together the pieces and offering an aspirational vision of an integrated national data system that would deliver on the promise of producing high quality data and making them accessible in a way that promotes their safe use and reuse. By examining these opportunities and challenges, the Report shows how data can benefit the lives of all people, but particularly poor people in low- and middle-income countries.
Front Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Abbreviations Overview Advancing development objectives through data Aligning data governance with the social contract Moving toward an integrated national data system Notes References Part I: Advancing development objectives through data Chapter 1: Harnessing the value of data for the poor The untapped potential of data to serve development objectives A brief history of data A data typology The economics of data and political economy issues Data for development: A conceptual framework A data governance framework to enforce the social contract for data Putting it all together: Establishing an integrated national data system Organization of this Report Notes References Spotlight 1.1: Helping communities to gain the ability to collect and analyze their own data Spotlight 1.2: The importance of good data in helping low- and middle-income countries to manage debt during and after the COVID-19 pandemic Chapter 2: Data as a force for public good The central role of public intent data Public intent data and development: Three pathways for adding value Gaps in the coverage, quality, and usability of public intent data Why data gaps persist: The political economy of public intent data Realizing the potential of public intent data Notes References Spotlight 2.1: Deploying data to curtail violence against women and girls Spotlight 2.2: The role of international organizations in improving public intent data Chapter 3: Data as a resource for the private sector Creating value and solving development challenges through data-driven business models The role of data in the production process of firms Data-driven businesses and the technologies that help them create value Focus on platform firms in low- and middle-income countries Data inputs for economic activity The positive development impacts of data used in the production process How use of data in the production process is transforming sectors Some potential risks and adverse outcomes of data-driven businesses to be addressed by policy Notes References Spotlight 3.1: The huge potential of open data for business applications Chapter 4: Creative reuses of data for greater value The power of repurposing and combining different types and sources of data New insights from repurposing and combining data Limitations in using private intent data for development Investments in data innovations: Building a culture of data Notes References Spotlight 4.1: Gathering, sharing, and using better data on weather, water, and climate from low- and middle-income countries Spotlight 4.2: Making roads safer by repurposing private intent traffic data Part II: Aligning data governance with the social contract Chapter 5: Data infrastructure policy: Ensuring equitable access for poor people and poor countries Data infrastructure as a source of inequity Connecting poor people Connecting poor countries Conclusions and recommendations Notes References Spotlight 5.1: How the COVID-19 pandemic has recalibrated expectations of reasonable data consumption and highlighted the digital divide Spotlight 5.2: Data’s carbon footprint Chapter 6: Data policies, laws, and regulations: Creating a trust environment A trust framework of data safeguards and enablers Building safeguards for trusted data use Creating enablers for data sharing Recommendations for crafting a holistic legal framework A maturity model for strengthening the legal and regulatory framework Notes References Spotlight 6.1: The evolving social contract on data: Balancing data sharing and data protection to facilitate contact tracing to control COVID-19 Spotlight 6.2: The debate over ownership of personal data Chapter 7: Creating value in the data economy: The role of competition, trade, and tax policy Shaping data regulation to support competition, trade, and taxation Competition policy Trade policy Tax policy Conclusion Notes References Spotlight 7.1: Understanding the interface between data protection and competition policy Spotlight 7.2: The role of regional and international cooperation in addressing data governance challenges Chapter 8: Institutions for data governance: Building trust through collective action How can institutions help govern data for development? Data management across the data life cycle Data governance functions Mapping data governance functions to illustrative institutions Data intermediation and collaboration Making data governance institutions effective Sustainable outcomes through inclusive multistakeholder governance Assessing the institutional foundation through the lens of a maturity model Notes References Spotlight 8.1: The need for a new global consensus on data: A call to action Spotlight 8.2: Promoting citizen science in the Amazon basin Part III: Moving toward an integrated national data system Chapter 9: Creating an integrated national data system Toward an integrated national data system The vision of an integrated national data system Realizing the vision Notes References Boxes Figures Maps Tables Back Cover
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