The World Bank Policy on Access to Information, launched on July 1, 2010 is a landmark disclosure policy adopted by the World Bank. Information and knowledge is publicly available also through numerous related World Bank initiatives such as Open Data, Open knowledge Repository and Open Finances.
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June 25, 2021 — The World Bank opened its doors on June 25, 1946, nearly 2 years after its Articles of Agreement had been drafted at the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire. The Second World War ended a year before the opening day, and the devastation was still felt: 60 million people had died and millions more were
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November 19, 2020 — Two years ago, my colleagues Jeanne Kramer-Smyth and April Miller introduced the World Bank Group (WBG) Archives’ efforts to preserve digital records, and last year my colleagues Shiri Alon and Daniele Balduzzi wrote about how we’re defining the digital
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In the eight years since I joined the Access to Information (AI) team as a Case Manager, I have come to look at the AI Policy (for which the World Bank Group Archives is one of the implementing groups) as a set of principles and rules that empowers the team to make informed decisions in response to AI public access requests, and
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February 26, 2020 — Bertha F. Wilson is an Archivist at the World Bank Group Archives in Washington, DC and has worked at the Bank Group for 21 years. As a member of the Archives’ Access to Information team, she works with external researchers and Bank staff to facilitate access to the Bank’s
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To mark the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the Bank’s Articles of Agreement, the WBG Archives is launching several new products, the first of which is a new video titled “Uncover the Treasures of the World Bank Group Archives” (below).
Since April 2014, the World Bank has been disclosing, on a monthly basis, summaries of the public access requests submitted by the public, when permission to disclose was granted by the requesters.
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