Dear GKD Members, I do agree with Peter Ellis that the Bank has enormous quantity of information generated through development research. Quite often, critics feel that the Bank has only its own documents and none else. Recently, I undertook a study to ananlyse the availability of anti-corruption literature on the web. To my surprise, the Bank and its wing, the WBI posses the most, much more than Transparency International (TI), the leading NGO in this field.
The leading NGOs and the academics should not hesitate to admit that they lose out in the aspect of publishing their work and making it available online. Efforts by certain networks such as Oneworld, OECD, Bellanet are commendable. The proposed Corruption Online Research and Information System of TI is a step towards this. But, we need to initiate many more such networks focussing on thematic issues - not to compete with the Bank but to compliment their efforts. Perhaps the Bank will make some funds available for such efforts? Warm wishes Shadrach B. Shadrach Department of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough LE11 3TU Phone: 0044-1509-223079 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Several people have written to this list mentioning in passing that > there is nothing of value on the World Bank website. I won't claim > there is anything of value to them (not knowing what they want), but > cannot let the statement pass as a generalisation. The World Bank > website is an extraordinary source of information on everything from > Bank performance to the enormous quantity of development research (eg > the cutting edge of applied development economics) readily and freely > available in searchable electronic format. For those working in the > relevant field, it is sometimes hard to remember how much better off we > are now than 10 years ago in this respect. ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, an NGO that is a GKP member*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
