Chapter 3 Data and information management
Data management challenges are particularly important to address in the system, given that the next round of reporting introduces impact indicators which will compound challenges. Here as well policies on data access would be needed to engage the scientific community in delivering the reports and reviewing the results. Scientists are widely eager
to be involved in analysing data, and many institutions would be at-hand to contribute to improving the system if it was more open. The successful use of the impact indicators also requires a strong level of scientific competency as they are more varied and complex, for example in that data can be spatial as well as temporal in nature.
Children collect water at a well, Western Sahara, Algeria. Š Evan Schneider / UN photo
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