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Technology Leapfrog

World Bank

February 3, 2011

Doug Hadden

VP Products

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Version 7 section• Globalization and transparency• New Normal• Impact of open systems• Transparency leapfrog opportunity• Case of Timor-Leste• Budget Transparency

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Agenda

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• Digital technology• Efficient movement of goods• Competition for markets, businesses• Ever increasing information availability• Driving reform

Globalization

• 21st Century – don’t worry about the *Press

• Technology in the hands of citizens

• Millions of social media auditors

• Mobile phones game-changer

Citizens are Watching You

* Lesson learned in Iran, China, Egypt, Tunisia…

Theory of Leapfrog

• Legacy technology entrenched in developed countries

• Bi-pass stages in development• Focus on what is important• Learn from other countries

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Budget Transparency

Budget presentation in legislature

Budget speech in official gazette

Budget speech pre-released to press

Budget book printed

PDF on-line

Audited books pdf

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Budget Transparency con’t

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Audit findings PDF

Quarterly audited reports PDF

Interactive budget execution data

Participatory budgeting

Budget data in XBRL

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Transition to Open Environment: Transparency

Transition to Open Systems: Technology

Open?

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transparency

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integration

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openopen

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Open

open standards

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Open Systems Maturity

Back Office Web Enabling technology

SystemsClosed Open

Environment

Open

Closed

MainframeEra

Client/ServerEra

ERP Era

ERP II Era

Webified ERPEra

Cloud Era

Dot Com Era

2.0 Era

DOM, CORBA

.Net, JavaEE

Open Source Middleware

Industry XMLstandards

Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture

Component-based SOA

1990s

Object-oriented Development

2000s

2010s

1980s

Proprietary Standards

Open dataOpen governmentMachine-readableMashups

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• Avoid the resource curse• Build civil society & social cohesion• Improve budget execution• Improve development outcomes• Sustain growth

Timor-Leste Objectives

beta version of Government of Timor-Leste transparency portal

subscribe

drill down

articles

Expenditures, Transparency Portal

10 years of data

drill through the chart of accounts

Expenditures, Transparency Portal

export to xls, doc, pdf, html, xml

track commitments

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Lessons Learned

Technology• Re-purpose open systems

rapidly to support portal functionality

• Optimal product footprint• Rapid implementation• Broad choice in middleware

Transparency• Good practices in budget

classifications• Holistic whole-of-country• Ministry of Finance and

Planning leadership• Civil society enablement