Chadwin Reno

Chadwin Reno

Organization Ministry of Agriculture,Livestock and Fisheries
Organization role
Deputy County director
Country Kenya
Area of Expertise
Project management, monitoring and evaluation concepts, Agricultural Value chains finance and development, sustainable business models development, participatory rural analysis, climate change concepts, SME development and Financing, Strategic sales and Marketing, product development, market assessments, Customer Service Excellence, Cooperative development, financial markets, proposal/concept development, agricultural extension, budget preparations, workshop/conference organization, training and human resource .

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Forum E-consultation on ethical, legal and policy aspects of data sharing affecting farmers

Day 1: Major challenges from a policy legal and ethical perspective, preventing smallholder farmers benefiting from data sharing

Submitted by Chadwin Reno on Tue, 06/05/2018 - 15:19

I think  making  data freely  available is  the  direction  to  go  however,  there still  exists  barriers  that  need  to  be  surmounted which  include;

-The gap  between information  that  anyone  can use  and  the  data  that  anyone  can  get  needs to  be  plugged. Making data open is not always about licences or the format issues, but it is alsoabout comprehension and access. Open data should not require additional time, resources and expertise to be used.

-  There  is  a significant  cost  in  making  quality   data Open .The  question  is  who  is  to  bear  the  cost, Publishers or  the  users?-What  are  the  tools  available to  analyze and critic the  data?The policies  to  be  formulated and  implemented  by  governments  and  institutions  should address such  concerns.

Finally, from  an  ethical  perspective,even  with  good  policies about open  data,there  is  still  need for a culture change among  individuals and  institutions  as  well as  governments  to  encourage  sharing information among  stakeholders in  the  sector 

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