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Open Data for Socio-Economic Value
Presented by Ina Smith
Project Manager African Open Science Platform
Academy of Science of South Africa
African Open Science Platform
• http://africanopenscience.org.za/
• 4 Focus Areas:
• Policies
• Infrastructure
• Capacity Building
• Incentives
• Research data informs government decisions
and policies, and government data informs
research
Transparency – Accountability - Trust
Slide Credit: Laura Merson, IDDO
Ebola Outbreak 2014-15
Slide Credit: Laura Merson, IDDO
After the Outbreak Post 2015
http://www.nature.com/news/data-sharing-make-outbreak-
research-open-access-1.16966
Date Downloads
Nov 2013 984
May 2014 1 534
Oct 2015 2 289
Open Data to ….
• Streamline dissemination of information within
government
• Provide better information for policy-makers
• Enable targeting of resources (prevent silos)
• Provide equal access to information
• Informed 2030 UN SDGs on global development
priorities - major global issues of justice, human
rights, social inclusion, prosperity, environment
• Past, present future trends predicted
• Target aid money & improve development
programmes
• Track development progress, prevent corruption
• Contribute to innovation, job creation, economic
growth
For data to be of use …
Curate Data
FAIR Data
As open possible, as closed necessary
Collaboration
https://opendatabarometer.org
Data to address Global Challenges
• Global challenges require coordinated international
actions
• Open Science and Open Data can promote
collaborative efforts and faster knowledge transfer
for a better understanding of challenges such as
climate change, and could help identify solutions
https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
Governments are beginning to realise the value
of releasing datasets which support business
activities, such as land registries, addresses of
public and private institutions, company
registers and geospatial data. The geospatial
sector alone is estimated to generate US$150–
270bn of revenue globally, by providing digital
mapping and location data services.
https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
In the Ivory Coast and Senegal, for example,
Orange Telecom hosted a ‘Data for development
challenge,’ which encouraged researchers and
developers to use anonymised, aggregated data
from their mobile company to develop solutions
related to transportation, health and
agriculture.
https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
Burkina Faso has implemented the Extractive
Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), where
companies disclose what they have paid in
and other payments, and governments report
on what they receive.
https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
Protecting Livelihoods (Uganda)
Data on bacterial wilt provided government with
real-time information on the spread of the
disease, affected areas, direct treatments to
prevent further advances.
Treatment options disseminated to protect
crops.
https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
Maps Informing Education (Kenya)
Visualised data on education revealed state of
schools, future opportunities for improvement.
Where schools are located, % of children not in
education, areas under-served to be targeted.
https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
Engaging Citizens in Policy Making (Nigeria)
Address budget transparency, teacher absenteeism, urban
upgrading through a citizen engagement platform.
Reused by tech community, media, civil society.
Citizens have access to about 90 government datasets,
including census, fiscal and geospatial data.
https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
Open Data Case Studies
• Helping parents to assess school performance in Tanzania
• Exposing $62m in potential health savings in Southern Africa
• Mapping the Ebola outbreak to save lives in West Africa
• Monitoring child malnutrition around the world
• Making aid more effective in Nepal
• Holding the Global Fund to account for its health spending
• Shedding light on 84 million companies around the world
• Tracking crop quality to boost food security and nutrition
• Building smarter, more responsive cities in Latin America
https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
INTERNATIONAL DATA WEEK
IDW 2018
Gaborone, Botswana: 5-8 November 2018
Information: http://internationaldataweek.org/
Deadline for abstracts, 31 May:
https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/
Thank you
http://africanopenscience.org.za
Ina Smith
ina@assaf.org.za

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Open Data for Socio-Economic Value/Ina Smith

  • 1. Open Data for Socio-Economic Value Presented by Ina Smith Project Manager African Open Science Platform Academy of Science of South Africa
  • 2. African Open Science Platform • http://africanopenscience.org.za/ • 4 Focus Areas: • Policies • Infrastructure • Capacity Building • Incentives • Research data informs government decisions and policies, and government data informs research
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  • 5. Slide Credit: Laura Merson, IDDO Ebola Outbreak 2014-15
  • 6. Slide Credit: Laura Merson, IDDO After the Outbreak Post 2015
  • 8. Date Downloads Nov 2013 984 May 2014 1 534 Oct 2015 2 289
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  • 10. Open Data to …. • Streamline dissemination of information within government • Provide better information for policy-makers • Enable targeting of resources (prevent silos) • Provide equal access to information
  • 11. • Informed 2030 UN SDGs on global development priorities - major global issues of justice, human rights, social inclusion, prosperity, environment • Past, present future trends predicted • Target aid money & improve development programmes • Track development progress, prevent corruption • Contribute to innovation, job creation, economic growth
  • 12. For data to be of use … Curate Data FAIR Data As open possible, as closed necessary Collaboration
  • 14. Data to address Global Challenges • Global challenges require coordinated international actions • Open Science and Open Data can promote collaborative efforts and faster knowledge transfer for a better understanding of challenges such as climate change, and could help identify solutions
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  • 19. Governments are beginning to realise the value of releasing datasets which support business activities, such as land registries, addresses of public and private institutions, company registers and geospatial data. The geospatial sector alone is estimated to generate US$150– 270bn of revenue globally, by providing digital mapping and location data services. https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
  • 20. In the Ivory Coast and Senegal, for example, Orange Telecom hosted a ‘Data for development challenge,’ which encouraged researchers and developers to use anonymised, aggregated data from their mobile company to develop solutions related to transportation, health and agriculture. https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
  • 21. Burkina Faso has implemented the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), where companies disclose what they have paid in and other payments, and governments report on what they receive. https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
  • 22. Protecting Livelihoods (Uganda) Data on bacterial wilt provided government with real-time information on the spread of the disease, affected areas, direct treatments to prevent further advances. Treatment options disseminated to protect crops. https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
  • 23. Maps Informing Education (Kenya) Visualised data on education revealed state of schools, future opportunities for improvement. Where schools are located, % of children not in education, areas under-served to be targeted. https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
  • 24. Engaging Citizens in Policy Making (Nigeria) Address budget transparency, teacher absenteeism, urban upgrading through a citizen engagement platform. Reused by tech community, media, civil society. Citizens have access to about 90 government datasets, including census, fiscal and geospatial data. https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
  • 25. Open Data Case Studies • Helping parents to assess school performance in Tanzania • Exposing $62m in potential health savings in Southern Africa • Mapping the Ebola outbreak to save lives in West Africa • Monitoring child malnutrition around the world • Making aid more effective in Nepal • Holding the Global Fund to account for its health spending • Shedding light on 84 million companies around the world • Tracking crop quality to boost food security and nutrition • Building smarter, more responsive cities in Latin America https://www.issuelab.org/resources/22720/22720.pdf
  • 26. INTERNATIONAL DATA WEEK IDW 2018 Gaborone, Botswana: 5-8 November 2018 Information: http://internationaldataweek.org/ Deadline for abstracts, 31 May: https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/

Notas del editor

  1. Socio-economic development is measured with indicators, such as GDP, life expectancy, literacy and levels of employment. – data to monitor change/development, but also to predict trends. Distinguish between government data and research data. how open data-driven solutions can create economic and social value, improve service delivery in public services, support more transparent and accountable governments and foster innovation to transform citizens’ well-being, cities, and governments for good. The IID learning interventions align with one of DST’s strategic objectives, namely, to use “knowledge, evidence and learning to inform and influence how science and technology may be used to achieve inclusive development”. The purpose is to demonstrate how innovative technology solutions may be used to improve the capacity of the state to deliver and improve access to basic services, and thereby advance local economic development. how open data works, the value of open data and unlock the potential benefits and contribution of open data to society and data ‘owners’. The seminar will explore topics that include: the state of open data ecosystem, open data research and the potential benefit of open data in South Africa; the challenges of institutionalising government open data; open data in public service delivery, accountability and transparency; open data governance, policy and legislation; address risks, privacy, ethics and quality issues; open data for social and public benefit; measuring the impact of open data; innovation, economic and social benefits of open data in the private sector and the future of open data. The seminar will explore topics that include: 1. The state of open data ecosystem, open data research and the potential benefit of open data in South Africa; 2. The challenges of institutionalising government open data; 3. Open data in public service delivery, accountability and transparency; 4. Open data governance, policy and legislation; 5. Address risks, privacy, ethics and quality issues; 6. Open data for social and public good; 7. Measuring the impact of open data; 8. Innovation, economic and social benefits of open data in the private sector; 9. The future of open data
  2. We are living in an increasingly data driven world – facebook, twitter, air bnb, uber. We are living in an increasingly data-driven society, where everything is mapped, measured and recorded in digital bits. Entire lives, from birth to death, are catalogued in digital form. Business transactions, teaching, learning, research and many more are conducted in the cloud, offering many benefits, but also challenges. Resulting in new challenges concerning ethics, trust, accessibility and more. Need data to solve injustices of the past. Lack of data threatening food security Malaria outbreak 2014-2015 World Economic Forum 2018 How to get rid of fake data
  3. Government-led response to ebola outbreak included many international organisations, condcutcting research, collecting data
  4. When the outbreak ended and organisations left the region, the data was scattered globally, not properly curated for future use. We cannot afford this to happen. Too expensive.
  5. Copyright, gaps in data, patient consent granted – creates mistrust, and slows down the discovery process. It also impacts on funding, because if properly curated, previously collected data could have been re-used to inform future outbreaks, trends could have been established, solutions could have been found faster, new research building on existing research. Last April, five months into the largest Ebola outbreak in history, an international group of researchers sequenced three viral genomes, sampled from patients in Guinea1. The data were made public that same month. Two months later, our group at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, sequenced 99 more Ebola genomes, from patients at the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. Uncertainties over whether the information belongs to local governments or data collectors present further barriers to sharing. So, too, does the absence of patient consent, common for data collected in emergencies — especially given the vulnerability of patients and their families to stigmatization and exploitation during outbreaks. Ebola survivors, for instance, risk being shunned because of fears that they will infect others. Related stories Tensions linger over discovery of coronavirus Dreams of flu data Nature special: Ebola outbreak More related stories We immediately uploaded the data to the public database GenBank (see go.nature.com/aotpbk). Our priority was to help curb the outbreak. Colleagues who had worked with us for a decade were at the front lines and in immediate danger; some later died. We were amazed by the surge of collaboration that followed. Numerous experts from diverse disciplines, including drug and vaccine developers, contacted us. We also formed unexpected alliances — for instance, with a leading evolutionary virologist, who helped us to investigate when the strain of virus causing the current outbreak arose. The genomic data confirmed that the virus had spread from Guinea to Sierra Leone, and indicated that the outbreak was being sustained by human-to-human transmission, not contact with bats or some other carrier. They also suggested new probable routes of infection and, importantly, revealed where and how fast mutations were occurring2. This information is crucial to designing effective diagnostics, vaccines and antibody-based therapies. What followed was three months of stasis, during which no new virus sequence information was made public (see 'Gaps in the data'). Some genomes are known to have been generated during this time from patients treated in the United States3. The number is likely to have been much larger: thousands of samples were transferred to researchers' freezers across the world. Sources: Sequences, NCBI/virological.org; Ebola cases, WHO Expand In an increasingly connected world, rapid sequencing, combined with new ways to collect clinical and epidemiological data, could transform our response to outbreaks. But the power of these potentially massive data sets to combat epidemics will be realized only if the data are shared as widely and as quickly as possible. Currently, no good guidelines exist to ensure that this happens. Speed is everything Researchers working on outbreaks — from Ebola to West Nile virus — must agree on standards and practices that promote and reward cooperation. If these protocols are endorsed internationally, the global research community will be able to share crucial information immediately wherever and whenever an outbreak occurs. The rapid dissemination of results during outbreaks is sporadic at best. In the case of influenza, an international consortium of researchers called GISAID established a framework for good practice in 2006. Largely thanks to this, during the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak, the US National Center for Biotechnology Information created a public repository that became a go-to place for the community to deposit and locate H1N1 sequence information4. By contrast, the publishing of sequence information in the early stages of the 2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak in Saudi Arabia highlighted uncertainties about intellectual-property rights, and the resulting disputes hampered subsequent access to samples. Hasan Jamali/AP Pilgrims in Saudi Arabia try to protect themselves from Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus. Sharing data is especially important and especially difficult during an outbreak. Researchers are racing against the clock. Every outbreak can mobilize a different mixture of people — depending on the microbe and location involved — bringing together communities with different norms, in wildly different places. Uncertainties over whether the information belongs to local governments or data collectors present further barriers to sharing. So, too, does the absence of patient consent, common for data collected in emergencies — especially given the vulnerability of patients and their families to stigmatization and exploitation during outbreaks. Ebola survivors, for instance, risk being shunned because of fears that they will infect others. Nature special: Ebola outbreak Fortunately, useful models for responsible data sharing have been developed by the broader genomics community. In 1996, at a summit held in Bermuda, the heads of the major labs involved in the Human Genome Project agreed to submit DNA sequence assemblies of 1,000 bases or more to GenBank within 24 hours of producing them5, 6. In exchange, the sequencing centres retained the right to be the first to publish findings based on their own complete data sets, by laying out their plans for analyses in 'marker' papers. This rapid release of genomic data served the field well. New information on 30 disease genes, for instance, was published before the release of the complete human genome sequence. Since 1996, the Bermuda principles have been extended to other types of sequence data and to other fields that generate large data sets, such as metabolite research. Guidelines for sharing More-recent policies on data release similarly seek to align the interests of different parties, including funding agencies, data producers, data users and analysts, and scientific publishers. Since January, for example, the US National Institutes of Health has required grantees to make large-scale genomics data public by the time of publication at the latest, with earlier deadlines for some kinds of data7. We urge those at the forefront of outbreak research to forge similar agreements, taking into account the unique circumstances of an outbreak. First, incentives and safeguards should be created to encourage people to release their data quickly into the public domain. One possibility is to request that data users (and publishers) honour the publication intentions of data producers — the questions and analyses that they want to pursue themselves — for, say, six months. These intentions could be broadcast through several channels, including citable marker papers, disclaimer notices on data repositories such as GenBank, and online forums, such as virological.org and the EpiFlu database. Alternatively, data producers could publish an announcement about their data and their intentions on online forums as a resource that can be used by others as long as they cite the original source. “We urge researchers working on outbreaks to embrace a culture of openness.” Second, ethical, rigorous and standardized protocols for the collection of samples and data from patients should be established to facilitate the generation and sharing of that information. A global consortium involving the leading health and research agencies and the ministries of health of engaged nations should work together towards establishing these. Ethicists should be involved to safeguard subjects' privacy and dignity. Biosecurity experts will also be needed to address potential dual-use research and other safety concerns. A helpful analogue is the approach used by the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Initiative, which aims to apply genomics to improving the health of African populations. Since August 2013, H3Africa has used standard consent-form guidelines8 for collecting DNA samples from subjects for genomic studies, regardless of their country of origin. Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Quarantine officers rush to test passengers at Tokyo's Narita airport amid the 2009 swine-flu outbreak. Lastly, any preparation for future outbreaks should include provisions for rapidly building new bridges and establishing community norms. Successful collaborations in genomics and historical data-sharing agreements have tended to involve a fairly stable group of individuals and organizations, making norms of behaviour relatively easy to establish and sustain. By contrast, outbreaks can involve a new cast of characters each time, and cases in which the pathogen is new to science call for whole new fields of research. The Kenema way As a first step, we call on health agencies such as the World Health Organization, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Médecins Sans Frontières, as well as genome-sequencing centres and other research institutions, to convene a meeting this year — similar to that held in Bermuda in 1996. Attendees must include scientists, funders, ethicists, biosecurity experts, social scientists and journal editors. We urge researchers working on outbreaks to embrace a culture of openness. For our part, we have released all our sequence data as soon as it has been generated, including that from several hundred more Ebola samples we recently received from Kenema. We have listed the research questions that we are pursuing at virological.org and through GenBank, and we plan to present our results at virological.org as we generate them, for others to weigh in on. We invite people either to join our publication, or to prepare their own while openly laying out their intentions online. We have also made clinical data for 100 patients publicly available and have incorporated these into a user-friendly data-visualization tool, Mirador, to allow others to explore the data and uncover new insights. Kenema means 'translucent, clear like a river stream' or 'open to the public gaze'9. To honour the memory of our colleagues who died at the forefront of the Ebola outbreak, and to ensure that no future epidemic is as devastating, let's work openly in outbreaks. Nature 518, 477–479 (26 February 2015) doi:10.1038/518477a
  6. streamlining the dissemination of information within government; second, providing better information for policy-makers; and third, enabling the targeting of resources. (prevent silos)
  7. banana bacterial wilt in Uganda provided the government with real-time information on the spread of the disease. They were able to quickly identify the most affected areas and direct the limited treatments for the disease to prevent further advances. At the same time, they could disseminate information directly to the public via SMS on treatment options and how to protect their crops. Within five days of the first messages being sent out, 190,000 Ugandans had learned about the disease and knew how to save bananas on their farms.21
  8. Visualising education data in Kenya revealed a dynamic picture of the state of schools, as well as future opportunities for improvement. In a country where 50% of the population is under 18, it is important for policy-makers to have access to accurate information about access to education, literacy rates and performance across regions. A joint operation between GroundTruth Initiative, Map Kibera, Development Gateway, Feedback Labs, and the Gates Foundation, among others, has connected existing data to bring the informal school sector in Kenya to light for parents, school leaders and education officials.22 With open data visualisations, it is now possible to see where schools are located in Kenya, and the percentage of children not in education, revealing areas of the population which may be under-served and can therefore be targeted with better services.
  9. Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC)