Nobody Reads The PDFs
June 9, 2014
The Washington Post’s Wonkblog asks an important question in the article,” The Solutions To All Our Problems May Be Buried In PDFs That Nobody Reads.” This abridged question is asked: what if all of the world’s problems were solved, but no one had bothered to read the PDF? The World Bank, the UN’s international financial institution, produces a lot of PDFS. They are long, technical, thusly boring.
“The World Bank recently decided to ask an important question: Is anyone actually reading these things? They dug into their Web site traffic data and came to the following conclusions: Nearly one-third of their PDF reports had never been downloaded, not even once. Another 40 percent of their reports had been downloaded fewer than 100 times. Only 13 percent had seen more than 250 downloads in their lifetimes. Since most World Bank reports have a stated objective of informing public debate or government policy, this seems like a pretty lousy track record. “
It is understandable that the general public does not download the reports for the leisure reading. Also the World Bank is not the only place to get this information. The article only uses the World Bank as an example of how the government generates reports and how most of them are not read. The problem is that so many are produced that the good ideas are lost. There probably is a better way of doing this, but has anyone thought of it? Much less trying to change the government is slower than dial up.
Whitney Grace, June 09, 2014
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