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World Bank, UN, USA, .cn and the world can combine their information to map (Myanmar OR Burma) deeply

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World Bank, UN, USA, .cn and the world can combine their information to map (Myanmar OR Burma) deeply
@WorldBank I am looking at your Country Partnership Framework for countries which leads to pages like
 
https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/110961589818564510/pdf/Myanmar-Country-Partnership-Framework-for-the-Period-of-FY20-FY23.pdf
 
On those pages the “Official PDF” download link is still coded as HTTP (not secure) and Chrome browser will not download it. Perhaps you might get someone to locate the program that has that old code and change it to https.
 
http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/110961589818564510/pdf/Myanmar-Country-Partnership-Framework-for-the-Period-of-FY20-FY23.pdf
 
On your page at https://www.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/country-strategies there is a list of countries (not complete) and 2023 links – which generate links like this and “This site can’t be reached”
 
https://documentsinternal.worldbank.org/search/34007861
 
( site:worldbank.org ) shows 3.39 Million results in Google Search right now. I am fairly certain you do not have a human or AI assisted way to check links, performance or if what you post is correct.
 
I was reading about Myanmar and your pages say “it is serious” but your website is not of a quality and currency and completeness to indicate it is a real priority for the World Bank. Nor is any of the information on the site integrated and linked to UN.Org. Every group is stopping at the edge of the arbitrary borders on domain names.
 
There are countless efforts on the Internet for global issues affecting individual countries and peoples. But the Internet groups actually working with the data and links and issues are NOT working together globally with a consistent set of rules and tokens.
 
If “Myanmar” is truly important, then the world ought to be verifying and organizing and curating sets of things (from all search engines) for
 
site:worldbank.org (“Myanmar” OR “Burma”) 178,000 entries
 
site:un.org (“Myanmar” OR “Burma”) 329,000 entries
 
site:state.gov (“Myanmar” OR “Burma”) 45,200
 
(“Myanmar” OR “Burma”) has 850 Million entries and they are NOT verified, organized, curated and accessible by global open, verified, all human language accessible methods.
 
The UN, WorldBank, US State Department and all other agencies and groups cannot leave the Internet such a mess. If that country and its people are truly valuable as humans, then at least get your pages cleaned up.
 
It is possible to take 850 Million entries find the duplicates, the organizations, the facts and reports and records, the knowledge content and put it into accessible form in all human languages.
 
site:cn (“Myanmar” OR “Burma”) has 1.28 Million entries and Google does not translate country names to all human languages, search, translate, deduplicate, combine, and organize. The data in a billion pages is NOT impossible to process and present in fair, verifiable, accessible form for all (roughly) 5.4 Billion humans using the Internet.  The other 2.8 Billion humans, they are at the mercy of groups using the Internet now. 
 
I have not been to the World Bank building in DC in nearly 40 years. I worked with all the international organization from 1983-1985 when I was setting up the Economic and Social Database at USAID’s Bureau for Program and Policy Development. I was still working at Georgetown University Center for Population Research, but Annette Binnendijk asked me to spend three years as a government employee to set that up. The seminar series I ran to teach how to use global integrated databases with data from all international groups was popular. Then Bill Trayfors (USAID Africa Bureau) asked me to Direct the first Famine Early Warning System (FEWS.net) Many of the things I have investigated and found answers to in the 26 years of the Internet Foundation were aimed at finding ways to combine knowledge from all organizations on critical issues of countries, and the world.

Please at least fix your links, but the people in countries all over the world now, deserve full attention of all organizations to coding, verifying and sharing all knowledge related to countries. I think that Myanmar is NOT that difficult. When I read what the groups say individually, there are definitely gaps and biases. But the total is fairly complete — if the whole is processed and verified. It is difficult compared to someone writing a dissertation, or some group writing a report, but far less effort and impact than tens of thousands of people dying or living in misery.

I think that Myanmar is NOT that difficult. When I read what the groups say individually, there are definitely gaps and biases. But the total is fairly complete — if the whole is processed and verified. It is difficult compared to someone writing a dissertation, or some group writing a report, but far less effort and impact than tens of thousands of people dying or living in misery.
 

Maybe people like @elonmusk and @openai and @GoogleDeepMind can help. It is NOT that difficult but the focus should stay on the human and related species,and integration of knowledge, not more dominance and self-interests. You cannot solve anything if you stop at the border of a domain name on the Internet. It is one Internet, not many. And the many can benefit when the resource groups are not fighting each other. And being lazy about links and completeness.

If all the people related to Myanmar OR Burma share their knowledge, and it is deeply verified but not censored, it ought to come to a good end. It is a project far smaller than “rewrite un.org” but very similar methods are used and it is small enough to do now where human lives are at stake and being lost.  I have about 2000 projects like that now but it is not my job, and UN and World Bank and others say it is their job.

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Richard K Collins

About: Richard K Collins

Director, The Internet Foundation Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.

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