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Platform updates, new dataset releases, research highlights, and open data news from Bangladesh.

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New Dataset May 15, 2025

District-Level Flood Risk Data Now Available for All 64 Districts

Bangladesh Meteorological Department contributed five-year historical flood inundation records with daily granularity across all districts.

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Research May 8, 2025

BRAC Study Uses OpenDataBD to Map Education Gaps in Char Areas

A new BRAC research paper cites OpenDataBD's education datasets to identify enrollment disparities in riverine char islands, influencing resource allocation.

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Event Apr 28, 2025

Open Data Day Dhaka 2025 Recap & Resources

Over 200 developers, researchers, and policy makers gathered at BRAC University for talks, workshops, and a live data hackathon. All slides and datasets are now available.

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New Dataset Apr 18, 2025

DGHS Releases Upazila-Level Health Facility Census 2024

The Directorate General of Health Services published a comprehensive census of all registered health facilities across 492 upazilas.

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Announcement Apr 5, 2025

OpenDataBD API Passes 1 Million Requests Milestone

Our public API has now served over one million requests since launch from mobile apps to academic research pipelines across 34 countries.

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Research Mar 22, 2025

New Economic Dashboard Reveals Regional GDP Disparities

A team at BUET used OpenDataBD's economy datasets to build an interactive regional income inequality visualisation now cited in a policy brief to the Ministry of Finance.

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