[Olpc-open] Fwd: [open-development] Mapping for Results goes Local

Thu Dec 6 03:48:59 EST 2012

Dear all,

This is an interesting visualisation to show how the activities of
WorldBank have local impact on communities.
Do we, or could we, have something similar for OLPC deployments?

I know there is http://olpcmap.net/ but it isn't quite the same in term of
content provided, maybe this platform could be extended with before/after
pictures and link to practical tips.

Cheers,
Christophe

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From: bgigler at worldbank.org <bgigler at worldbank.org>
Date: 5 December 2012 23:13
Subject: [open-development] Mapping for Results goes Local
To: "open-development at lists.okfn.org" <open-development at lists.okfn.org>

 Dear friends and coleagues,

I thought the following this might be interesting for you. We have worked a
lot on moving our Mapping for Results work to the local level, in order to
better reach local communities. Please take a look at the
Georesults<http://maps.worldbank.org/content/georesults>-
a new interactive platform to share local development solutions. Your
comments and suggestions are very welcome.

all the best,

Soren <http://h><http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/stories/mapping-results-goes-local>
 <http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/stories/mapping-results-goes-local>
 <http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/stories/mapping-results-goes-local>
http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/stories/mapping-results-goes-local

*Mapping for Results Goes Local *

November 21, 2012

   - New interactive maps with ‘before’ and ’after’ photos and videos to
   illustrate via social content World Bank project impact.
   - Georesults aims to enhance transparency and openness of World Bank
   finance projects.
   - This tool could be used by citizens to find out what’s going on in
   their communities or provinces.
   -

(c) World Bank.  Farmers cross-referencing maps.

*November 21, 2012--- *What does a farmer in Rwanda need? Seeds,  rain, a
good harvest… or maybe better access to information about programs and
local development solutions to help improve his or her well-being?

Earlier this year,  Johannes Kiess, Juan Guzman and Julia Zhu from the *World
Bank Institute’s* <http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/> (WBI)
*Innovation*<http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/approach/innovation> team
were driving through Rwanda’s countryside  taking pictures and collecting
coordinates to map a World Bank-executed and financed *Global Agriculture
and Food Security Program* <http://www.gafspfund.org/> (GAFSP) project.
They engaged with farmers who were helping them ground-truth the local
impact of the program.  When the WBI team pulled out a laptop and showed
them a rudimentary form of what they were working on they met with
excitement from the farmers.

“Imagine if we could see the project impact in our neighboring provinces
and learn lessons from their stories,” said Eric Ndebeyaho one of the
famers helping the WBI team in Karonyi, Rwanda.

“It would be so helpful for my community if they could see what is going on
behind those dots on the map,” added Josiane Yamfashije, another farmer
with the team.

[image: open-quotes]Inspired by our close collaboration with project
managers and their teams, we ideated and are piloting this new approach of
showing progress of World Bank results, connecting people to Georesults
(beta) via the Mapping Platform.[image: close-quotes]Aleem Walji, Director
of Innovation Labs in WBI.

These dots are project locations on the World Bank’s interactive *Mapping
for Results* <http://maps.worldbank.org/content/> platform that was
launched in October 2010 to visualize locations of World Bank-financed
projects and international aid programs at the sub-national level. More
than 2,500 projects were analyzed and more than 30,000 locations spanning
144 countries were geo-coded.

Fast forward to 2012 the World Bank’s Mapping for Results team in WBI is
going beyond the dots and piloting a new innovation – an online platform
called *Georesults* <http://maps.worldbank.org/content/georesults> (beta).
This is an interactive online space to view before and after images, videos
and results stories of World Bank projects.  This is one more effort to
help enhance transparency and showcase projects from a local perspective.
Building on Mapping for Results, it aims to improve the transparency and
effectiveness of development projects by creating a space to collect, and
visually share results, lessons learned and stories from a local
perspective.

“Inspired by our close collaboration with project managers and their teams,
we ideated and are piloting this new approach of showing progress of World
Bank results, connecting people to Georesults (beta) via the Mapping
Platform,” said *Aleem Walji* <http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/content/aleem>,
Director of Innovation Labs in WBI.”

The vision is to integrate this tool with Mapping for Results   and provide
enriched social content that is useful for citizens, World Bank project
managers and anyone interested in getting a visual glimpse into the impact
of our projects on the ground.  This project is piloting in eight
countries: Afghanistan, Bolivia, Georgia, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, Rwanda
and Vietnam.

“If we would like to move towards a Solutions Bank, we first have to better
understand and document what our results, experiences and lessons learned
are at the local level,” said Soren Gigler, from WBI’s Mapping for Results
team.

This is just a first step and this platform is a work-in-progress.  With
collaboration, this tool could be entry point to explore results data,
before and after photos, multi-media and local result stories about
projects and activities carried out in a specific project site.

“Communicating our results through social content and progress photos on a
map gives our reporting a human face and makes it more accessible for
citizens” said Gisu Mohadjer, Manager in the Operations and Country
Services unit.

Bjorn-Soren Gigler
Senior Governance Specialist
Innovation Practice
World Bank Institute
World Bank
e-mail: bgigler at worldbank.org
Tel: 202-458-8112

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