At today’s Peru Drupal Meetup, I will present on open data outreach strategies, specifically showing a sneak preview of our integration of web widgets into the next round of work on the World Bank’s Data website (which should be live to the greater public in mid July).

Web widgets will help take both the World Bank’s site and its data further. I will show how the widgets are powered by the World Bank’s API and how to get started building your own integration with the World Bank Data API. Here is the first public look at what a basic map widget looks likes, in this case of internet users (per 100 people) from the site. As you can see, you can zoom in on the custom tiles (down to Peru) and interact with the data.

There will also be other presentations, as well as a coders’ room which has been quite active during other meetups. Last month, for example, several people from the Drupal Peru group got together to work on and review core patches to help with the Drupal 7 release.