Data hub to promote global South’s research nears launch - SciDev.Net

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-04-17

Summary:

"Several research institutes are preparing to launch a prototype open-access ‘warehouse’ of digital data to help increase the online accessibility of development research coming from the global South and boost their decision-making influence. The Global Open Knowledge Hub is being developed by seven research bodies in the developing world, along with the UK-based research charity the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the US-based International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), to host their collections of thousands of development-related research documents and data sets. 'The hub is all about making it easier for organisations [from developing nations] to share their content and to ensure that the knowledge pool is enriched,' says Kelly Shephard, editorial manager with IDS. 'This, in turn, will enable otherwise unheard voices to contribute to global debates and decision-making.' The initiative is being designed to function as a “back-end data store”, similar to an institutional digital archive, but one that can host data from a number of institutions, according to Shephard ..."

Link:

http://m.scidev.net/global/data/news/data-hub-global-south-research.html

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oa.new oa.comment oa.psi oa.development oa.south oa.uk oa.ids oa.usa oa.3ie oa.green oa.interoperability oa.government oa.repositories oa.data

Date tagged:

04/17/2014, 12:21

Date published:

04/17/2014, 08:21