Additional Resources

Further Reading

Theory of Change

• Guiding Your Program to Build a Theory of Change. Innovations for Poverty Action. 2016.

Operation & Business Model (Case Studies)

• Big Data in Action: Innovation Challenge Winners
• Big Data in Action: Applications in World Bank Operations

Action Plan

• Big Data for Development: A Primer. United Nations. 2013.
• Managing Complexity and Uncertainty in Development Policy and Practice. Overseas Development Institute. 2015
• Systems Thinking for Policy Making. OECD. 2019

Data Project Scoping

• Scoping Data (for Social Good) Projects by Rayid Ghani

Data Innovation Cycle

• From Discovery to Scale: Leveraging big data to improve development outcomes

Data Sources

• Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age by Matthew Salganik
• Democratizing our Data: A Manifesto by Julia Lane

Ethics

• Peer Review Framework for Predictive Analytics in Humanitarian Response
• Dealing with Fairness and Bias in Building Data Science/ML/AI Systems
• UN Handbook for Privacy-Preserving Techniques
• Building Ethics into Privacy Frameworks for Big Data and AI: A Report from UN Global Pulse and IAPP
• UN Principles on Personal Data Protection and Privacy
• UN Global Pulse Principles on Data Privacy and Protection

Acknowledgements

This toolkit is maintained by Trevor Monroe (Senior Program Manager, WBG), Dharana Rijal (Data Scientist, WBG), and Alan Fritzler (Consultant, WBG).

We appreciate the editorial contributions of Olivier Dupriez (Senior Statistician, WBG), Stephanie Debere (Editing) and Keith Garrett (Manager, WBG) and the numerous organizations who have collaborated with the World Bank on initiatives to put big data into action over the years, including: Second Muse, Global Giving, Coleridge Initiative, Data Pop Alliance, Vital Wave, Development Seed and New Light Technologies.