The World Bank plans to release this week a mobile application that will give users access to comprehensive procurement data from 2004 to 2014.
The new app, which is being rolled out amid an ongoing controversial procurement reform process within the institution, aims to provide more transparency and accessibility to donors and recipients. Once downloaded, the app will be fully functional offline, allowing those in the most remote places full access, according to Joao Veiga Malta, practice manager at the bank’s Governance Global Practice.
“What we wanted to do was to be able to provide you the procurement information that the bank had with an easy reach [so] that you did not necessarily need a masters in statistics in order to be able to do an analysis,” he said Wednesday during a panel discussion on procurement at the bank’s annual meetings in Washington, D.C.
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