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Citizen Engagement, Government Data Management

World Bank launches financial datasets app

By Clarice Africa | 27 October 2011

The World Bank Finances mobile app is a companion tool to the recently launched World Bank Finances website. It consolidates data from the World Bank Finances website and World Bank Projects API, and gives users real-time access to the Bank’s financial information with the mobility to connect and engage directly with the Bank about local development projects that impact their lives.

The mobile app features information from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association, at the country, project, and loan levels. Users can bookmark countries, projects and loans that interest them, browse an interactive map, filter countries based on their preferred criteria, share information with their communities via social media channels, and enter into a dialogue with the Bank to provide feedback.

Citizen engagement is an especially important feature – the app makes it much easier for people to report issues related to data accuracy, corruption and fraud.

“Now more than ever, people who have the vested interest in monitoring the Bank’s financing have the means to do so,” said Chuck McDonough, World Bank Vice President and Controller.

“Tools like the World Bank Finances mobile application allow them to follow the money trail from funding agencies, to countries, and to projects in their neighbourhoods.”

The World Bank Finances mobile app is available for download at the iTunes App store, and for other mobile devices via web browser at financesapp.worldbank.org.

In the coming months, the Bank plans to launch the app in multiple languages, add more data, improve its citizen reporting feature, explore SMS functionality, and introduce versions for additional mobile platforms.

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