status: Recognised & Endorsed
Chair (s): Ingvill Constanze Mochmann, Norman Mukasa, Simone Haasler
Group Email: [group_email]
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Interest group “Data for Development”
Many researchers work on topics which require information from areas and population groups where only limited data exist. Data collected by the private and public sector (e.g. IGOs, NGOs, academia etc), social media data etc. provide important sources to get an overview of factors and issues of relevance to societal development in such areas. In particular following disasters, during conflicts, post-conflict situations or with regard to vulnerable populations these data are the only available and often used as evidence for policy implementations recommended to governments and are thus of great importance to decision-making processes.
This interest group focuses on the access to and usage of data from a variety of sources of relevance to development studies, human rights, conflict research and vulnerable and hidden populations. Whereas 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.
One of the arguments we often get for not sharing data is that it may be dangerous for those involved, they may be detected in the data file etc. which may be dangerous for them, in particular in present conflict zones. However, based on examples we can show that it is possible both to anonymize the data to such an extent that it safeguards the individual’s right to anonymity and still provide access to the data to avoid multiple data collection among these vulnerable groups. A challenge is of course that data collected often includes a variety of sources such as qualitative and quantitative interviews, photos, drawings, satellite pictures etc and one of the WG’s to be established is likely to be on how to combine, store, share and analyze different types of data.
The IG will reach out to research institutions in academia, organisations, ministries we work with/know they have data in order to elaborated basis for cooperation and data exchange. We will also reach out to other RDA IG’s that are related thematically, methodologically or technically.
Co-chairs
Ingvill C. Mochmann, GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences , Germany.
Simone Haasler, GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Norman Mukasa, MRU and Bugema University, Uganda
Posts
Reminder !! RDA for the SDG IG - information, questionnaire and planning of session at 16th plenary
Dear all, Thanks so much to everyone who has filled in our questionnaire so far and a kind reminder to those who have not done so yet. Deadline is October 16th 2020. Best wishes from the co-chairs Von: Mochmann, Ingvill Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2020 22:530 | Add new comment
RDA for the SDG IG - information, questionnaire and planning of session at 16th plenary
Sorry for any cross-posting! Dear colleagues, As you may all know in the meantime the RDA for the SDGs IG has been officially endorsed and we are pleased to announce that our session for the next virtual plenary has been accepted and will take place November 10th 2020 from 5-6.30 PM UTC. You may find details on the session outline here https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-16th-plenary-meeting-costa-ric...0 | Add new comment
Notification of acceptance RDA Plenary 15 session application
Dear group, Congratulations! Your joint session application - Disciplinary Collaboration Framework IG, Data for Development IG, RDA for the Sustainable Development Goals IG and ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences IG - RDA cross-disciplinary collaboration for addressing societal challenges has been approved and will appear in the RDA Plenary 15 Programme. Please consider this your official notification of acceptance.0 | Add new comment
P15 Session Proposal Received
Dear RDA Chair, Thank you for your session proposal for Plenary 15 titled “RDA cross-disciplinary collaboration for addressing societal challenges”.0 | Add new comment
RDA Plenary 15 Announcements - Registration and Calls for Co-located Events and Posters Now Open
RDA is excited to announce several important pieces of information related to RDA Plenary 15: Data for Real-World Impact, which will be held from 18-20 March 2020 in Melbourne, Australia at the Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre, MCEC (https://mcec.com.au/). This event will be hosted by CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) with the support of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).0 | Add new comment
Deadline For P15 Group Session Submissions Extended To 5 December 2019
Dear RDA members, RDA's 15th Plenary meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 18-20 March 2020 The deadline to submit session proposals for Plenary 15 in Melbourne, Australia has been extended to 5 December 2019, midnight UTC. Group session application form Joint meeting application form0 | Add new comment
Deadline for P15 Group Session Submission Fast Approaching
Dear Group Members, The deadline for group session submissions for Plenary 15 is 28 November 2019, midnight UTC – just two weeks away.0 | Add new comment
P14 Session Chair Update
In preparation for Plenary 14 in Helsinki, please refer to the information presented below pertaining to your breakout sessions. Remote Participation Remote participation will be available in each meeting room through GoToMeeting, which will be running from the laptop provided by the University. By just opening your presentation on this laptop, remote attendees will be able to view your slides and hear you speak.0 | Add new comment
Democratising Drone Data
Hi all In the name of cross-RDA collaboration I'm hoping you'll find this event interesting and appealing enough to join us, but even if not, your students might be interested and/or see this as a way to partialy fund attending P14 The drone data IG is hosting a pre-event hackathon working on the LANDRS (Linked And Networked DRoneS) project where amoungst other things we're working on creating an ontology and building an OpenAPI sepecification for creating a Restful API for building linked data native drone data applications.0 | Add new comment