"The World Bank and U.S. government on Thursday each announced major new initiatives aimed at expanding knowledge on the experience of women around the world, while acknowledging that much remains to be done on filling the global 'data gap' on women," Inter Press Service reports. At an event at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of Gallup, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "announced the creation of a new U.S. government initiative called Data 2X, which will aim [to improve] international capacity on the production and analysis of data, including training in gender-sensitive data-gathering techniques and filling gaps in gender-sensitive data," IPS writes. World Bank President Jim Kim "also announced a major new initiative on the subject, the World Bank's Gender Data Portal, a clearinghouse of the bank's decades' worth of gender-related statistics and analysis," the news service notes (Biron, 7/19).