Name: 【TED】Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid (Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid)
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Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

I grew up in Bihar, India's poorest state,

I remember coming home one day to find a cart

full of the most delicious sweets at our doorstep.

He was livid, and I still remember how we cried

when that cart with our half-eaten sweets

Later, I understood why my father got so upset.

from a contractor who was trying to get my father

My father was responsible for building roads in Bihar,

and he had developed a firm stance against corruption,

even though he was harassed and threatened.

where public officials were enriching themselves,

[rather] than serving the poor who had no means

to express their anguish if their children

when I traveled to remote villages to study poverty.

I remember one day, when I was famished and exhausted,

and just at that time, one of the poorest men in that village

invited me into his hut and graciously fed me.

Only I later realized that what he fed me

was food for his entire family for two days.

challenged and changed the very purpose of my life.

Later, I joined the World Bank, which sought to fight

such poverty by transferring aid from rich to poor countries.

My initial work focused on Uganda, where I focused

on negotiating reforms with the Finance Ministry of Uganda

But after we disbursed the loans, I remember

a trip in Uganda where I found newly built schools

and the poor once again without any voice or recourse.

Bihar represents the challenge of development:

Globally, 1.3 billion people live on less than

$1.25 a day, and the work I did in Uganda

represents the traditional approach to these problems

when winners of World War II, 500 founding fathers,

to establish the Bretton Woods institutions,

And that traditional approach to development

had three key elements. First, transfer of resources

Second, the development institutions that channeled

these transfers were opaque, with little transparency

of what they financed or what results they achieved.

And third, the engagement in developing countries

was with a narrow set of government elites

with little interaction with the citizens, who are

the ultimate beneficiaries of development assistance.

Today, each of these elements is opening up

due to dramatic changes in the global environment.

Open knowledge, open aid, open governance,

and together, they represent three key shifts

and that also hold greater hope for the problems

You know, developing countries today will not simply

accept solutions that are handed down to them

from successful emerging economies in the South.

They want to know how China lifted 500 million people

improved schooling and nutrition for millions of children.

This is the new ecosystem of open-knowledge flows,

not just traveling North to South, but South to South,

with Mexico's Oportunidades today inspiring New York City.

And just as these North-to-South transfers are opening up,

Recently, the World Bank opened its vault of data

for public use, releasing 8,000 economic and social indicators

and it launched a global competition to crowdsource

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