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I should mention that the International Science Council (outcome of a merger between ICSU and ISSC - the International Social Science Council - is shortly to launch a major initiative on Global Data Governance (please don’t be upset by the world governance),
that will deal with many of the issues raised in this correspondence. It will of course be highly contested by precisely some of those interests also referred to in this correspondence. However, if the science community does not take a lead on this one, you
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<div class="">Your discussion makes the reason to have a more focused discourse among stakeholders which this platform provides part of. It would make good sense to align this with some of the data think Tanks and present the case for in-depth analysis for
a continental level discussion. We are gearing for the ACFTA, which will drive intra-Africa Trade. Investment in infrastructure is definitely critical for this. </div>
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<div class="">The GODAN Africa Agenda is to promote a concensus on an Open data paradigm that anonymizes data for access, use and reuse for innovation. Intra-country data needs to be as raw as the users may seek to do. It makes sense for each country to plan
its own strategy on hosting, but GODAN supports countries think through the internal processes. Alone, however, we are not able to do it which is why we are a network to work with those who share our vision of making evidence available for decision making
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<div class="">The best locale for the kind of discussion we seem to hold is at the AU or ECA, who could kick start the discussions then regions and countries can take that forward but from the perspective of breaking the big pan African challenge into smaller
achievable milestones. If we do have any representatives of the AU, ECA, or any institutional initiatives that believe in the goal of GODAN, in this forum, kindly inbox me so that we can side chat on the possibilities.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 5:21 PM Alex de Sherbinin <<a href="mailto:adesherbinin@ciesin.columbia.edu" class="">adesherbinin@ciesin.columbia.edu</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">Thanks for your thoughtful response. I don't think that the cloud makes in-country or regional investments in the establishment of data repositories redundant. A repository could use the cloud for storage or backup and still require domain expertise
for the curation, documentation and stewardship of data according to community standards. Note that the CoreTrustSeal certification requires repositories to identify their domain and mission, which is considered critical for understanding the needs of the
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<div class="">One of the issues I have with the current approach to putting data in open repositories (Dryad, Figshare, etc.) is that the data are often not well documented (unless accompanied by a journal article) or discoverable, e.g. through catalog searches.
Something else I've encountered in Africa is a reluctance by national governments to entrust their data to cloud services hosted in Europe or North America. There may really be no threat to data security or breaches at all, but there is a perception that such
a threat exists or that this is a form of neo-colonialism (exportation of data). Lastly, someone else raised the issue that the cloud requires monthly fees. Unfortunately this may represent an obstacle to donors, who can pay for infrastructure but not necessarily
monthly fees. Perhaps those policies can be changed in recognition of the new reality. Or perhaps a continental/regional approach could mean that a repository is supported by fees coming from multiple member countries.</div>
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<div class="">I am not opposed to a continental/regional approach to data repositories, but where do we begin? With the AOSP? The African Union? And is it just one big open repository serving all domains from health to agriculture to climate or biological sciences,
or could we envision various domain repositories being set up with core funding serving continental or regional needs (say under the umbrella of ECOWAS or CILSS in the West African context)?</div>
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<div class="">As you well mention, the Cloud makes in-country investments redundant. and may to some extent be unnecessary. As Africa moves to centralize rather than decentralize within the Continental Free Trade Area and the Malabo Agendas, we may want to
think of Africa's open data space as the policy environment where much of what emerges from your workshop/conference will get better mileage for realization.</div>
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<div class="">GODAN's Africa Agenda is to support a melting pot of innovation using data. It is my view that once data is openly available, the temptation of taking it away to any place or location after a project is done becomes unnecessary. We make a deal
of data theft because someone having it has better mileage in what they can propose to us...what if everyone has access, can use and reuse the data for innovation-based not on information asymmetry but rather on their ingenuity?</div>
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<div class="">If we could do this, then the pan African institutions would focus on what brings development rather than other parochial interests...investment would be promoted and development achieved.</div>
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<div class="">I would be keen to discuss with your team on the possibilities of moving to a more centralized open data space that can inspire innovation as we work together within the GODAN Agenda. Unfortunately, we shall be finishing the Africa Geospatial
Data and Internet Conference in Accra at the time yours kicks off.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">This conversation offers a good opportunity to make everyone aware of a conference coming up on 23-25 October in Dakar: "Open Science in the South: Issues and Perspectives for a New Dynamic" <a href="https://opensciencesud.sciencesconf.org/" target="_blank" class="">https://opensciencesud.sciencesconf.org/</a>.
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<div class="">At this conference I am co-organizing with a colleague from WDS (Arona Diedhou) and partners from Agrhymet, Centre de Suivi Ecologique and WASCAL a workshop on developing West African research data repositories. One of the arguments I plan to
make is that the absence of national / regional repositories, along with policies in countries requiring repatriation of data (or at least maintenance of a copy in country), there will continue be a lack of "restitution" of research findings and development
project data in the region. I'd be happy to know if others are making such arguments, or if indeed in the age of the cloud this seems too parochial. Obviously this would require training and funding. If anyone can point me to initiatives that would support
this effort, that would be most welcome. I am hoping to convince IRD, the lead organizer, that investment in this area would be a tangible output from the conference.</div>
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<div class="">As you rightly say, most of the projects are undertaken from a top-down perspective, with limited sharing of knowledge among all the actors ... the beneficiaries rarely get to see the definition of the mission and the impatience to get started
by those coming with the project funds creates no opportunity for any preparedness among the beneficiary partners. Where knowledgeable persons exist, they may only be hosted within institutions. In many cases, such institutions are not core/key actors in the
problem/project definition. They are only invited, by a higher privileged office/officer, when everything has been defined and pathways of implementation determined at a political level they cannot question. Economic or political interests are the pathways
that those with interests use to take advantage of a system they may know presents the opportunity to give them leeway to mine data for their use and leave with it. The projects therefore are not defined with any other intention other than the data sourcing
for a song and empty promises by those portending to possess the knowledge that will develop a beneficiary country. </div>
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<div class="">Realizing this challenge, the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition convened with ministers of the South-South an Open Data Conference in Nairobi where a Declaration was formulated. We are currently supporting African countries to evolve
policies and frameworks that can advise compliance to national, regional and global agendas and in the process build local capacity key of which is data governance. I am convinced that we can sport feudal inclinations on behalf of partner countries in projects
and therefore request anyone formulating a project that they feel should be bottom-up and create local knowledge should link up with GODAN through Suchith or myself (in case your area of focus is Africa).</div>
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<div class="">Thanks, Suchith for sharing the Feudalism concerns.</div>
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<div class="">This is an instance of a biased data ownership. A few years ago I was working with a young African researcher on an agro-forestry research project. No sooner had we started than I realused that her centre had only some descriptive statistics but
no direct access to the biomass data which she and her colleagues had spent months collecting from two islands! The vast chunk of the data had left with the development partners at the end of the project. It turned out, nobody at the centre had any knowledge
or pressing interest to pursue the data and there was already new initiatives to run another project, which in my view was almost a duplicate of the first, but this time with a different development partner.<br class="">
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To cut the long story short, I have come across several cases of data ownership of this nature and my view is that it doesn't help much coining terminologies, as the best that can be achieved is a blame culture. Would I call that data capitalism? Colonialism?
Feudalism? I never would! I have learnt, over the years, that proper problem identification is a major stride in working out the solution. Blaming it on one part marginalizing the other when it comes to data generation, access and ownership is stripping everyone
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Apparently, the problem starts with the project write-up. If the project recipient is fully engaged from project initiation to delivery, they surely should know how to access the data, as that is a key project deliverable. My personal experience is that there
are a several factors that lead to this kind of situation. One, many project ideas are top-down, that is, they are not developed within the working conditions of the recipients. Two, there are often many gaps in engagement, mainly caused by near disparate
motives on many projects, with the funders, experts and recipients not necessarily having the same perception, motives or knowledge. Put the two together and add the determined project timeline, you have a near disaster. But the tripartite interests to run
projects continues and we are creating a vicious cycle. What is the solution? It must start from the recipients who must align each incoming project with their respective development strategies. They must present themselves as equal partners in defining the
project problem and tracking and measuring its outcomes. They should be able to quantifiable identify what worked and what didn't and any there should be national institutions charged with such responsibility. I could be writing all night, I would rather stop
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">This is indeed a huge problem. I also recently learned that information data from NGOs are best perhaps shared with some ministries in Bamako, Mali, but not within a region where the work is being done. This implies that
local decision makers remain dependant on the information/data stream back from the ministries which may take some months, if ever. This can never be the purpose of the work executed.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Since most of the projects are financed with public funding for the benefit of de people in the given (development) country and data/information belong in fact to the real funds provider of the work (i.e. tax payers),
claims of intellectual property rights that data belong to the project executors seem not applicable. Consequently, data and other information (e.g. lessons learned) should be shared at large to the population and other relevant stakeholders to avoid duplication
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This often happens when a foreign entity (e.g., a development agency/project).e data are collected in a developing country and are taken out of the country. They will leave behind some summary tables but will take the rich data and metadata away. This makes
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<li style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">Are there any examples of Digital Feudalism in GIS? </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""></span></li><li style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-stretch: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">How will Digital Feudalism in GIS affect our future generations?</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""></span></li><li style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-stretch: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">What policies are governments, regulators doing to reduce Digital Feudalism in GIS?</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""></span></li><li style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-stretch: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">What policies and curriculum are universities, educators adopting to reduce Digital Feudalism in GIS?</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;" class=""></span></li></ol>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt;" class="">Best wishes,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""></span></p>
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