Last week the World Bank also launched a new "open data initiative."

VOA: special.2010.04.26

New data show the World Health Organization's simple and cost-effective approach in fighting tuberculosis works.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The data will be stored online, creating the biggest such national database in the world.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Most of the data comes from the industrialized world. Not surprisingly, burning fossil fuels for transportation and electrical generation top the list for their contributions to climate change, acid rain and toxic pollution.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04