This is a highly interactive session, with speakers giving various pieces of information about data institutions (that is, the role of data institutions in data ecosystems, the types that these institutions manifests or such other). Engagements with audience will be through online polls, breakaway sessions, answering to questions through the chat box, featuring drop in experts on the subject or playing pre-recorded videos on data institutions and similar facilities.
This session seeks to explore requirements of successful data ecosystems and identify what makes them work, and the challenges that need to be overcome. The session will explore the different ways data institutions steward data, which include, among others;
- Protecting sensitive data and granting access under restricted conditions.
- Combining or linking data from multiple sources and providing insights and other services back to those that have contributed data.
- Creating open datasets that anyone can access, use and share to further a particular mission or cause.
- Acting as a gatekeeper for data held by other organisations.
- Developing and maintaining identifiers, standards and other infrastructure for a sector or field, such as by registering identifiers or publishing open standards.
- Enabling people to take a more active role in stewarding data about themselves and their communities.
