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Kyle Strand

Lead Knowledge Management Specialist and Head of Library
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)


Picture of Kyle StrandKyle Strand is Lead Knowledge Management Specialist and Head of the Felipe Herrera Library in the Knowledge, Innovation and Communication Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank. For more than a decade, his work has focused on initiatives to improve access to knowledge both at the Bank and in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Kyle designed the first open repository of publications and datasets at the IDB and spearheaded the idea of software as a knowledge product to be reused, adapted, and shared via the Code for Development platform. Currently, Kyle coordinates library services within the organization, supports the open knowledge product lifecycle including publications and open data, and promotes the use of artificial intelligence and natural language processing as a keystone of knowledge management in the digital age. Kyle is also executive editor of Abierto al Público, a blog in Spanish that promotes the opening and reuse of knowledge. He has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. from the George Washington University.

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