Engaging a Data Revolution: Open Science Data Hubs and the New Role for Universities in Africa

Q2 Social Sciences
Christine Mwongeli Mutuku
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Abstract

Abstract This paper presents a new ideology for engaging Africa in a data revolution. It explores the idea of creating open-science-data-hubs (OSDH) at flag-ship universities in Africa to preserve and share both internally and externally produced data. Although limited in the technical aspect, the objective here is to explore the pragmatism of how and why such an endeavor in Africa should be undertaken. This paper argues that the African university is uniquely placed to play this new role in today’s technological world and discusses the characteristics and foundational pillars necessary to set up such a program. The arguments provided here challenge Africa to be smart and adopt clever solutions to their data generation, collection and access problems, by finding value and a new role in the intellectuals and institutions of higher learning and in the necessity to involve them in the generation, preservation and sharing of data and knowledge that can be used in the policy formulation process.
参与数据革命:开放科学数据中心和非洲大学的新角色
本文提出了一种让非洲参与数据革命的新思想。它探讨了在非洲的旗舰大学建立开放科学数据中心(OSDH)的想法,以保存和共享内部和外部产生的数据。虽然在技术方面受到限制,但这里的目标是探讨如何以及为什么应该在非洲进行这种努力的实用主义。本文认为,非洲大学在当今的技术世界中具有独特的地位,可以发挥这种新作用,并讨论了建立这样一个项目所需的特征和基础支柱。本文提出的论点要求非洲采取聪明的办法来解决数据的产生、收集和获取问题,办法是在知识分子和高等教育机构中发现价值和新的作用,以及让他们参与产生、保存和分享可用于政策制定过程的数据和知识的必要性。
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Open Information Science
Open Information Science Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences
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