1. IG DATA FOR DEVELOPMENT
RDA 10th Plenary meeting, Montréal, 2017
Tuesday September 19th,
Chairs IG Data for development:
Ingvill C. Mochmann, GESIS, CBS and HHI
Paul de Guchteneire, Human Rights Advisor and former head of UNESCO migration programme.
Norman Mukasa, Muteesa I Royal University & Bugema University

2. Data sharing needs, requirements, and projects in developing countries
Agenda:
1. Introduction (Ingvill C. Mochmann, IG Chair)
2. THE HIDDEN CHALLENGE OF AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT:
Lacking quality of research and inaccessibility to data (Norman Mukasa, Muteesa I Royal University, Uganda)
3. The “African Open Science Platform” project (Simon Hodson, CODATA)
4. Data for Community Development and Decision-making (Ayoung Yoon, Indiana University Indianapolis)
5. Discussion

3. Better Data – better decisions I

5. Aims I
Improve access to and usage of data from a variety of sources of relevance to development studies, human rights, vulnerable and hidden populations.
Many intergovernmental organizations have a tradition of open data access routines and policies to data they have collected, data collected by non-governmental organizations are often not available for further usage.
Also relevant data collected by university institutes and research organizations are often not shared with the community and increasingly also the question is raised which contribution big data may have in this area and how to collect, use, share and analyze these data.
But, as we see, also missing data is a highly relevant issue in developing countries – need to push reliable data collection by authorities.
→ so in general data gathering and data use in support  of the new sustainable development goals that are to be accepted in the UN Sustainable Development Summit September 2015.

6. Aims II
Topics to be covered range from improving data sharing culture, ethical issues related to open access to development data, and safeguarding vulnerable populations, to practical and ethical considerations of using big data in development research.
Cooperation on four dimensions:
Supporting research data infrastructures and training of researcher in developing countries
Cooperating within the RDA with other IG and WG who address similar issues and outside in the data and research community. Support networing
Pushing mulitiplier effects into own research environment – we need to reach out to the research data producers and users, collect use cases.
Outreach to NGO and authorities to foster data sharing culture – Better Data – Better Policies ??

7. Activities and ouput I IG since July 2014
Poster presentation at the 4th RDA pleneray session in Amsterdam, September 2014 – reach out to RDA community.
Received seed funding from GESIS to elaborated research proposal (did not start before may 2015)
Started collecting data and documents on relevant data collections (had two GESIS internships: migration and human rights)
Presentation of activities an Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, November 4th Planning joint symposium with NGOs.
Meeting of IG Chairs in Cologne, December 8-10, 2014

8. Activities so far II
Joint session with WG RDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud Computing in the Developing World at RDA 5 Plenary in San Diego (following this discussion on collaboration re. funding opportunities for the summer school).
Presenting the IG at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, September 2015 –aquiring use cases and best practices (ex. sexual violence in armed conflict data set, UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset)
Presentation of own use case on children born of war at UKDA workshop „ “Supporting human rights deliver insights from data”.
US/RDA Fellow s. presentation
RDC Uganda s. presentation
Meeting IG Chairs Cologne December 2016.

9. THANK YOU!