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Children and the World Bank Agree: It’s Good to Share

Cross-posted at Change.org’s Global Poverty blog.

There is a big push these days to open up information. Open Government. Open Data. Open Access. Open Source. And now, open global health and development.

In January 2010, PLoS Medicine, a peer-reviewed open-access journal, published a commitment from eight major global health agencies to improve health data throughout its life cycle — [...]

Improving Data Access and Use

A new essay in PLoS Medicine outlines the critical need for more investment in the collection, management, and use of health data. The co-authors of this piece represent eight major global health agencies, including the WHO, the Global Fund, GAVI, UNFPA, the Human Development Network at the World Bank, UNAIDS, UNICEF, and the [...]