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BelizeInfo, A Development Database
posted (September 27, 2016)
Today the Ministry of Human Development launched BelizeInfo, an online tool for information and statistical monitoring. BelizeInfo is a compilation of over 65,000 data values from over six different sectors. The Ministry's intent is for the website to be used by the general public, academia, NGO's and all others.

Mark Antrobus, Social Planner
"There are a number of websites, we have the central bank that has a huge number of data values on the financial sector. We have SIB which has information on the economic sector, on the general population. We're hoping to have a crime observatory launch next month. So what we're doing is bringing all of that data together in one central location so you don't have to worry about where to get this data from, what formats am I going to get it in, this is one stop shop for data for the country."

Judith Alpuche, CEO - Ministry of Human Development
"What we're doing here is really trying to push even further, this culture of utilization of data. there's always a lot of data and people would use it if its available but it's just going through the pain of finding it, digging it up, pulling it out, the administrative data from the various ministries, etc. but bringing it together like we have in Belize info under one umbrella so you don't have to be going to the SIB and Central Bank and all over the place but its collated in one area. We hope that this will help to continue to build that culture of using data."

New information will also be added to BelizeInfo.

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