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HOW WELL DID

BANGLADESH

Bangladesh ranked 61 in a list of 94 countries FARE?
surveyed. Out of this 6% of the data are fully open
and the average score for the nation was 25%.
Below is the breakdown of the performance of the
individual categories for Bangladesh.

6% Open 25% Score

While Administrative
boundaries have
achieved full score,
several important
categories such as
government
spending, election
result, water and air
quality has scored
zero.

LEADING FROM

THE FRONT

The modern data economy often economy. Opening as much data Both big data and open data can
looks like a “Wild West” digital as possible to the public is one transform business, government,
environment where commercial way to provide leadership. and society – and a combination
ingenuity, rapidly changing Another is for governments and of the two is especially potent.
technology, and a dearth of international organizations to Big data gives us unprecedented
regulation leave many uneasy make data the foundation for a power to understand, analyze,
about the future. Government new kind of data and ultimately change the world
can help bring order and philanthropy—persuading private we live in. Open data ensures
direction to this market by companies with large troves of that power will be shared – and
leading from the big data to donate datasets for that the world we change will,
front—providing an example to social good—a movement that with luck, become a fairer and
guide other actors in the data has already begun. more democratic one.

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