Sharing will save everyone time and resources - DATAFreetown GIS Conference 2013

Supported by…

Mr Jobo Samba, GIS Expert

INTRODUCTION Cost of collecting data

Benefits of sharing data

How to share data

Issue involved in sharing of data

COST OF COLLECTING DATA Data is the ingredient for social, economic

and environmental development planningTopographic Data-SL Settlement Data – SL British Sierra Leone Ordinance Statistics Survey Department

1960s

2004

COST OF COLLECTING TOPO. DATATopographic Data Acquisition

By Aerial Survey

- High Winged Aircraft

- Human Resource ( Pilot, data processing team)

- Financial Resources

- Not less than six months for nation wide survey

COST OF COLLECTING SETTLEMNT DATA

Settlement Data Acquisition

By Field Campaign

- Human Resource (78 Field Officers)

- Equipment ( GPSs, Vehicles etc.)

- Financial Resources

- 25 Months to cover the entire country

BENEFITS OF DATA SHARING Key Data Sharing Benefits:

- Harmonization of national development planning among MDAs

- Saves Time

- Saves Resources

DATA SHARING METHODS shared network file server (for example, within a

research group, school or department) intranets or content management systems

online collaboration tools or groupware (for example, Google Docs and Spreadsheets)

proprietary enterprise software (for example, Microsoft Sharepoint)

social networking sites for researchers (such as myExperiment)

KEY CHALLENGES IN DATA SHARING Common data management principles

Sharing Protocol, IPR, ownership…..,

Data standards

Data types – What is needed

Data quality – Fitness for Use

KEY CHALLENGES IN DATA SHARINGData Volume – How much is enough

Metadata, vocabularies

Who Pays

Benefits/incentives for sharing

Data Security – Open access vs sensitive data

Data download & Use tracking

The increasingly popular decision at the municipal and regional levels is to provide GIS data as a free public good and service

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