The World Bank Policy on Access to Information, launched on July 1, 2010 is a landmark disclosure policy adopted by the World Bank. Information and knowledge is publicly available also through numerous related World Bank initiatives such as Open Data, Open knowledge Repository and Open Finances. Read Overview »
April 10, 2023 — Visualize the growth in World Bank Group country membership since its initial members joined in 1945 and check historical profiles of every country that has been a member of the WBG, past or present. These profiles detail the institution's work with each country and links to relevant historical resources. Read More »
June 25, 2021 — The World Bank opened its doors on June 25, 1946, nearly 2 years after its Articles of Agreement had been drafted at the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire. The Second World War ended a year before the opening day, and the devastation was still felt: 60 million people had died and millions more were Read More »
November 19, 2020 — Two years ago, my colleagues Jeanne Kramer-Smyth and April Miller introduced the World Bank Group (WBG) Archives’ efforts to preserve digital records, and last year my colleagues Shiri Alon and Daniele Balduzzi wrote about how we’re defining the digital Read More »
In the eight years since I joined the Access to Information (AI) team as a Case Manager, I have come to look at the AI Policy (for which the World Bank Group Archives is one of the implementing groups) as a set of principles and rules that empowers the team to make informed decisions in response to AI public access requests, and Read More »
