http://info.worldbank.org/etools/bspan/ B-SPAN is a webcasting service that presents World Bank seminars, workshops, and conferences on a variety of sustainable development and poverty reduction issues via streaming video. en-us 2007 The World Bank Group, All Rights Reserved. bspan@worldbank.org bspan@worldbank.org http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2475&EID=1120 On November 10, 2009, the World Bank Institute (WBI) held a meeting to discuss the organizations developing results agenda. The meeting was prefaced by WBI Director of Operations Aki Nishio and featured a presentation by Samuel Otoo, Manager of the Institutes Capacity Development and Results team. Comments and discussion were provided by Michael Jarvis, Private Sector Development Specialist and Bruno Laporte, WBI Director of Thematic Knowledge and Learning. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Tuesday, November 10, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2475&EID=1120 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2474&EID=1119 As part of its Flagship Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing, the World Bank Institute presented Special Lunch Session Health System Analysis Lessons from Recent World Bank Experience by Ricardo Bitran, Bitran y Associados and Peter Berman, Lead Economist, HDNHE. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Thursday, October 29, 2009 Thursday, October 29, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2474&EID=1119 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2470&EID=1115 A special issue of the World Bank Institutes magazine, Development Outreach, devoted to the theme of fragility and conflict, draws lessons from the experiences of the World Bank and other organizations in tackling capacitybuilding and other challenges in conflictaffected settings. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Tuesday, September 29, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2470&EID=1115 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2437&EID=1101 The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI™) at Santa Clara University works with social entrepreneurs to help them overcome barriers to scale and impact. GSBI is guided by a theory of change that connects emerging and advanced social entrepreneurs with Silicon Valley support networks, adapting and applying Silicon Valley best practices in newventure development to the base of the pyramid. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Thursday, May 21, 2009 Thursday, May 21, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2437&EID=1101 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2434&EID=1098 On May 12, 2009, the World Bank Insitute featured the presentation, "The Learning Spiral A Conversation with Raoul Blindenbacher" at the World Bank. Raoul Blindenbacher, advisor of the World Banks Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) to discuss the strategy and methodology behind the Learning Spiral. Blindenbachers theory is intended to better facilitate knowledge exchange to enhance learning in governments. The event was faciliated by Steffen Janus, Knowledge and Learning Officer of the WBI Multimedia Team. Panelists for the discussion included Jason Gluck, Advisor for the United States Institute of Peace, Gita Gopal, IEG Lead Evaluation Officer and Sheila Jagannathan, Senior Learning Officer of the World Bank Institute (WBI). B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Tuesday, May 12, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2434&EID=1098 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2409&EID=1088 On April 16, 2009, the World Bank Institute held the dialogue event Climate Change Policy in the USA What Can We Expect from the U.S. on the Road to Copenhagen? B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Thursday, April 16, 2009 Thursday, April 16, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2409&EID=1088 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2405&EID=1084 On April 1, 2009, the World Bank Institute Poverty Reduction (WBIPR) group held the concluding session of the International Trade in Services Course held from March 23 to April 1, 2009. The event, Prospects for Services Trade Reform and International Agreements featured a panel discussion by World Bank Lead Economist Aaditya Mattoo, Christina Bliss, Assistant USTR for Services and Investment, Bernard Hoekman, Director of the World Bank PRMTR, Nigerian World Trade Organization (WTO) Ambassador Honorable Yonov Frederick Agah, and Hamid Mamdouh, Director of the Trade in Services division of the WTO. The panel was chaired by WBI Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Division Manager Roumeen Islam. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Wednesday, April 01, 2009 Wednesday, April 01, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2405&EID=1084 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2403&EID=1082 On March 19March 20, 2009, the World Bank Institute (WBI) held a Global PeerLearning Workshop on "Turning Crises into Opportunities through Regulatory Reforms" to discuss improving the investment climate towards job creation and high quality growth. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Friday, March 20, 2009 Friday, March 20, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2403&EID=1082 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2402&EID=1082 On March 19March 20, 2009, the World Bank Institute (WBI) held a Global PeerLearning Workshop on "Turning Crises into Opportunities through Regulatory Reforms" to discuss improving the investment climate towards job creation and high quality growth. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Thursday, March 19, 2009 Thursday, March 19, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2402&EID=1082 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2398&EID=1078 How do we address the delivery and the use of assistance of resources to make the greatest difference in the lives of the poor? In the age of global partnership and capacitybuilding, the relationship between the international donor community and partner counties must be assessed in order to answer this question. On March 16, 2009, contributing writers of the issue gathered at the World Bank to discuss the Magazines latest issue Aid Effectiveness after the Third High Level Forum (HLF) in Accra, Ghana on September 2008. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Monday, March 16, 2009 Monday, March 16, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2398&EID=1078 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2388&EID=1076 On March 3, 2009, Oxford Professor and Director of the Study of African Economies Paul Collier presented his new book, Wars, Guns and Votes at the International Monetary Fund. World Bank Institute VicePresident Sanjay Pradhan facilitated the session, which featured additional commentary by World Bank Chief Economist of the Africa Region, Shanta Devarajan. In his presentation, Collier discussed the relationship between civil wars and political leadership to poverty. The book focuses on political leadership in dangerous places, and the struggle for power after the wave of democracy of the 1990s in Africa, Asia and Latin America. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Tuesday, March 03, 2009 Tuesday, March 03, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2388&EID=1076 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2055&EID=944 Breaking all the rules of traditional meeting facilitation, open space technology is a kind of meeting that creates a marketplace for participation and discussion, in which the group votes with their feet. Advocates state that this nonfacilitated technique lends itself well to fast, effective action even in large and unruly groups. In this brown bag lunch, sponsored by the World Bank Institute, open space innovator Harrison Owen spoke about the potential of using open spaces instead of conventional discussion formats. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Thursday, May 03, 2007 Thursday, May 03, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2055&EID=944 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1968&EID=53 Welcome to the Best of BSPAN. Governance matters—we all agree on that. But what do we mean by governance, and how do we measure it? On that point, opinions are a little bit more divided. In this excerpt from a roundtable on Measuring Governance, Aart Kraay, World Bank Lead Economist, discusses the methodology behind the Governance Matters report for additional insight into these questions. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Monday, January 15, 2007 Monday, January 15, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1968&EID=53 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1967&EID=907 Governance has become a central topic in development, and many sets of indicators have been developed to measure the quality of governance and to rank countries accordingly. But how are these measurements made and the indicators applied? What issues arise in constructing and using governance indicators? In this round table, World Bank and external experts discussed data and methodologies used to develop governance indicators, the respective advantages and disadvantages of various indicators, issues related to the use of indicators in measuring the results of various development policy actions, and directions for future development. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Thursday, January 11, 2007 Thursday, January 11, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1967&EID=907 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1965&EID=53 There is no podcast for January 1, 2007 B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Monday, January 01, 2007 Monday, January 01, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1965&EID=53 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1938&EID=898 How can countries continue to innovate and increase production? What causes innovation, and how can it be funded? A recent report, A Pact for Research and Innovation, hopes to answer these questions. Its conclusions were presented at a brown bag lunch hosted by the World Bank Institutes Knowledge for Development Program. The lunch was chaired by Shigeo Katsu, Regional Vice President for the World Bank. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Wednesday, November 08, 2006 Wednesday, November 08, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1938&EID=898 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1899&EID=878 In this July 10, 2006 videoconference, experts from the World Bank spoke to participants in several African countries about fund management for environmental projects. The workshop was chaired by World Bank staff members Pietronella van den Oever, Consultant; Maria Delos Angeles, Senior Environmental Economist; and Suzanne Essama, Knowledge Sharing Officer. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Monday, July 10, 2006 Monday, July 10, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1899&EID=878 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1894&EID=53 Development was once thought to be simply a matter of macroeconomics and infrastructure. Today, we know that successful development requires a mix of those factors with knowledge sharing, human development, and technical guidance what economists call building capacity. In this interview from the World Bank Institutes Capacity Matters workshop, Hilary Bowker, former CNN Senior Anchor, and Gobind Nankani, Vice President of the Banks Africa region, discuss the Capacity Development Management Action Plan B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Saturday, July 15, 2006 Saturday, July 15, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1894&EID=53 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1787&EID=851 How can businesses help to develop the markets they enter? How can nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) harness the private sector for development? Can a partnership between companies, governments, and NGOs achieve an effectiveness greater than the sum of its parts? To answer these questions, the World Bank Institute sponsored a conference April 1011, 2006 , on Business, NGOs, and Development Strategic Engagement to Meet the Millennium Development Goals at Bank headquarters. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Tuesday, April 11, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1787&EID=851 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1786&EID=851 How can businesses help to develop the markets they enter? How can nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) harness the private sector for development? Can a partnership between companies, governments, and NGOs achieve an effectiveness greater than the sum of its parts? To answer these questions, the World Bank Institute sponsored a conference April 10–11, 2006, on Business, NGOs, and Development Strategic Engagement to Meet the Millennium Development Goals at Bank headquarters. B-SPAN World Bank Institute ( WBI ) Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Tuesday, April 11, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1786&EID=851