Access to Information
April 10, 2023 ¡ª Visualize the growth in аIJʿª½± 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.
June 25, 2021 ¡ª аIJʿª½± 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
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November 19, 2020 ¡ª Two years ago, my colleagues Jeanne Kramer-Smyth and April Miller introduced the аIJʿª½± 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
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 аIJʿª½± 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
To mark the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the Bank¡¯s Articles of Agreement, the WBG Archives is launching several new products, the first of which is a new video titled ¡°Uncover the Treasures of the аIJʿª½± Group Archives¡± (below).
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Since April 2014, the аIJʿª½± has been disclosing, on a monthly basis, summaries of the public access requests submitted by the public, when permission to disclose was granted by the requesters.
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The Access to Information FY22 annual report is available for download.
