Geospatial Operations Support Team (GOST)

Geospatial Operations Support Team (GOST)#

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Introduction#

GOST is a unit in the World Bank’s Development Economics Data Group. GOST brings spatial insight to WB lending to improve transparency and accountability.

We invest in geospatial data to lower costs for everyone.
We advise teams on its use. We analyze that data to inform lending decisions.
We train counterparts and teams to collect it and use it in their results frameworks.

About#

We document important resources, methods, and sources in real time via this live wiki. This repository is the evolving, growing workspace where GOST stores libraries and scripts for operationalizing the many initatives urrenctly on going in the geospatial realm within the World Bank Group.

Team#

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Events#

Show and Tell#

Every other Thursday, GOST host a lunchtime get-together in the form of “Show&Tell” or “Guest of the Month” to discuss new and interesting geospatial ideas and solutions. If you have an idea for a “show-and-tell” or would like to be added to our email list please send a note to GOST@worldbank.org

Newsletter#

The GOST team issue a monthly newsletter highlighting both exciting new work from the team and interesting new geospatial datasets and initiatives. You can find old issues of the newsletter here, and you can subscribe to the newsletter here.

Trainings#

Satellite State of Play
Light Every Night Dataset
Enhancing FCV Operations with Geospatial ICT Tools