Online course

Massive Open Online Course

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) was organized by the World Bank (WB) based on the World Development Report (WDR) 2021. It included lessons and insights from 19 leading WB economists, data scientists, and other experts and authors of the WDR 2021.

All videos and content part of the MOOC can be found here Learners can also enroll and complete a self-paced version of the course provided in this link

The course explores the WDR and its recommendations through six modules, where each module contains reading material, videos, quizzes, and other exercises to gain knowledge on the topics presented.

Module I — Advancing development objectives through data
Module II — Data in the public sector, the private sector, and civil society
Module III — Creative reuses of data for greater value
Module IV — Aligning data governance with the new social contract
Module V — Creating value in the data economy: The role of competition, trade, and tax policy
Module VI — Moving toward an integrated national data system

What you can learn from the course?

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