Assistant Professor Ayoung Yoon recently published a book chapter on data sharing practices in developing countries, titled “Data sharing practice and policy challenges in developing countries: The context of Uganda,” with researchers from Muteesa Royal University, Uganda, as a part of their research project, Data Sharing and Reuse in Developing Countries.
Abstract
The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) has transformed the functioning of the public and private sectors in developing countries, like Uganda. However, the inherent barriers to data sharing in developing countries such as scarcity of resources, limited technical knowledge, and data unreliability presents considerable challenges. Additionally, decision makers have a challenge of implementing data sharing policies, laws, and strategies relevant to support sustainable growth. In Uganda, the development of ICT and the Internet has provided an access platform for data sharing among various stakeholders, including scholarly researchers, private companies, public entities, telecommunication agencies, developers, and security agencies. While policies for data sharing have not yet been fully defined, Uganda reformed its ICT policy in 1996 to enable government deregulation of the country’s telecommunication sector, which led to the development of a platform for effective information sharing. The existing challenges of data sharing demonstrate the weakness in the existing policy and culture in Uganda. This review chapter aims to analyze the challenges, current practices, and policies relevant to data sharing in developing countries in the context of Uganda. This review contributes to an understanding on how policies affect data sharing in developing countries.
About the book
Coherence of the information world is needed to approve technology concerning data sharing. This book gives to a wide range of readers the possibility to know what problems exist in the field. An international group of experts discuss the situations in their practices concerning the data exchange. Bio information, education protocols, and investigation of data bases gather at different information resources. These data are needed for protection, invariability and open access. In many cases, opposite goals are encountered and it is important to solve complex problems. The authors of the chapters found within this book give their solutions to different problems. These tools and methods have been described in different conditions of locality (from the developed to the developing world) and domains of practice (from art and research to government and schooling). This book is founded on many sources, such as books, papers, reports, data bases, legislative acts, etc. The editorial board and editors hope that this book will become a table book for readers and that they will often refer to it.
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