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<p>George, what do you mean by "imbalance in their relationship with
researchers with access to funding"? Does the funding by West
depend on ways of funds' distribution among researches? What would
be the ideal balance in your view?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Anatoly,<br>
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I think that we are seeing this from the perspective of
different disciplines. I agree that IP is often a problem, but
it is not the only problem.<br>
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In the case that I was describing, the African research center
actually "owns" the data, but they are dependent on funding
sources in the US and Europe for support. This leads to an
imbalance in their relationship with researchers with access to
funding. I see this imbalance in resources and power as the
central problem. <br>
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The "Afrobarometer" survey (<a
href="http://www.afrobarometer.org/" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.afrobarometer.org/</a>)
may be a model of interest in this discussion. Afrobarometer is
a survey of attitudes about governance and society administered
in 30+ countries. There are similar surveys (Eurobarometer,
Asiabarometer, Latinobarometer, etc) in other regions, which are
very widely used in political science. Afrobarometer started
as a partnership between universities in the US, South Africa,
and Ghana. At first, the center of activity was in the US, but
the headquarters and leadership were transitioned to Africa. The
US and South African partners continue to be involved as
"support units".<br>
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AM Alex de Sherbinin <<a
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Kiringai,
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<div>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 user community. </div>
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<div>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>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>In any case - I wanted to make this point to the
group at large, in case others have thoughts. I would
like to follow up with you for some more discussions on
possible GODAN-WDS collaboration in the region.</div>
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<div>Alex</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at
12:56 AM Kiringai Kamau <<a
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<div>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>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>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>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>Inbox me for further discussion on how we can
work together.</div>
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<div>Kiringai,</div>
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2019 at 9:53 PM Alex de Sherbinin <<a
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<div dir="ltr">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
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://opensciencesud.sciencesconf.org/</a>.
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<div>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>Cheers,</div>
<div>Alex de Sherbinin </div>
<div>vice chair, WDS scientific committee</div>
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12, 2019 at 9:42 AM Kiringai Kamau <<a
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<div>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>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>Thanks, Suchith for sharing the
Feudalism concerns.</div>
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<div>Kiringai Kamau</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat,
Oct 12, 2019 at 10:16 AM Mwitondi,
Kassim <<a
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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>
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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 on the
project of a fundamental
responsibility in managing the
project.<br>
<br>
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
here for now.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
KSM<br>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB">Dear all,</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">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>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">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 of efforts.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">A discussion
worthwhile to be continued.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p><span>Kind regards,</span></p>
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<p><span
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Suchith,</span></p>
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<p><span
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New Roman",serif"
lang="EN-GB">I have not
heard that term before
but I did run into
related term this week
at the DDI-CODATA
workshop here in
Dagstuhl. The term is
Data Colonialism. 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 it difficult to
develop the data
analysis and management
skills within the
country. </span></p>
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<p><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:black"
lang="EN-GB">I
came across a
recent op-ed
by Prof.
Mariana
Mazzucato on
“Digital
Feudalism” at</span><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(69,69,69)" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p
style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(69,69,69)" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p
style="font-stretch:normal"><a
href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/platform-economy-digital-feudalism-by-mariana-mazzucato-2019-10?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d192f2bc47-sunday_newsletter_6_10_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-d192f2bc47-105013549&mc_cid=d192f2bc47&mc_eid=a8cee90b20"
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style="font-size:9pt;color:black"
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style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(69,69,69)" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p
style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:black" lang="EN-GB">Prof. Mazzucato is a
leading
researcher and
thinker on
Technology and
Innovation,
advisor to the
European
Commission on
research and
innovation
strategy, and
author of two
important
books on the
subject “The
Value of
Everything”
and
“The Entrepreneurial
State”. </span><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(69,69,69)" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p
style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(69,69,69)" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p
style="font-stretch:normal"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:black" lang="EN-GB">The report on
“Mission-oriented
Research and
Innovation in
the European
Union” might
be of interest</span><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(69,69,69)" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p
style="font-stretch:normal"><a
href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/mazzucato_report_2018.pdf"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:black"
lang="EN-GB">https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/mazzucato_report_2018.pdf</span></a><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(228,175,10)" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p
style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(69,69,69)" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p
style="font-stretch:normal"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:black" lang="EN-GB">Since the use of cloud
platforms for
GIS data
analysis is
having a huge
impact on the
GIS community,
the subject is
of relevance.
</span><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:black">I
would like
learn more on
this </span><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(69,69,69)"></span></p>
<ol start="1"
style="margin-top:0cm"
type="1">
<li
style="color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:black" lang="EN-GB">Are there any examples of
Digital
Feudalism in
GIS? </span><span
style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></li>
<li
style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-stretch:normal"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:black" lang="EN-GB">How will Digital
Feudalism in
GIS affect our
future
generations?</span><span
style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></li>
<li
style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-stretch:normal"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:black" lang="EN-GB">What policies are
governments,
regulators
doing to
reduce Digital
Feudalism in
GIS?</span><span
style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></li>
<li
style="color:rgb(69,69,69);font-stretch:normal"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:black" lang="EN-GB">What policies and
curriculum
are universities,
educators
adopting to
reduce Digital
Feudalism in
GIS?</span><span
style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></li>
</ol>
<p
style="font-stretch:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(69,69,69)" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p
style="font-stretch:normal"><span
style="font-size:9pt;color:black" lang="EN-GB">Best wishes,</span><span
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<p
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style="font-size:9pt;color:black" lang="EN-GB">Suchith</span><span
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lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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