Data for Better Lives: A New Social Contract
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Data for Better Lives: A New Social Contract
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Establishing a Transformative Social Contract through Data for Better Lives, Paving the Way for Inclusive Progress and Well-being
Duration | 6 weeks |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Data for Better Lives: A New Social Contract at World Bank Group Highlights
Data for Better Lives: A New Social Contract
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- Earn a paid certification after completion
- Learn from expert faculty
Data for Better Lives: A New Social Contract at World Bank Group Course details
Data for Better Lives: A New Social Contract
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Who should do this course?
- Policy makers, data scientists, civic leaders, and advocates committed to leveraging data for societal improvement and fostering a new social contract
What are the course deliverables?
- How data can better advance development objectives
- Creating economic and social value from data
- Using data in the public and the private sector
- Creative reuses of data for greater value
- Data governance in the area of infrastructure, laws and regulations, and economic policies in the area of competition, trade and tax.
- Policy recommendations using a maturity model approach
- Creating an integrated national data system
More about this course
- With this course, explore the 2021 World Development Report (WDR) and how data can be used for advancing development outcomes. Learn about the principles of a new social contract for data and data governance needed to transform lives for the poor
Data for Better Lives: A New Social Contract at World Bank Group Curriculum
Data for Better Lives: A New Social Contract
at World Bank Group
Week 1: Module I — Advancing development objectives through data
Week 2: Module II — Data in the public sector, the private sector, and civil society
Week 3: Module III — Creative reuses of data for greater value
Week 4: Module IV — Aligning data governance with the new social contract
Week 5: Module V — Creating value in the data economy: The role of competition, trade, and tax policy
Week 6: Module VI — Moving toward an integrated national data system
Data for Better Lives: A New Social Contract at World Bank Group Faculty details
Data for Better Lives: A New Social Contract
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Robert Cull
Robert Cull is Research Manager and Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development Team of the World Bank's Development Research Group.
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