Unfortunately, we see the policy as an end goal. Therefore, many humanitarian organisations are graveyards of wonderful policies, never implemented.
Are Humanitarian Agencies Policy Graveyards?
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From the Blog on data governance
Opposite of Chatoyancy
Seth wrote about chatoyancy recently. I don’t know what opposite sophisticated word to chatoyancy is, but we experience it often
Updated Governance Stack
Many of you will be familiar with the governance stack. We need to figure out how people can be involved in the decision making.
Involving Others in Decision Making
There are many ways in which communities are involved in decision making. There isn’t ‘one’ way to do it as each community is different.
A Problem with Consent
And then someone asks a question that stops us all. “How do we explain consent and data sharing to an elderly person struggling with dementia?”
Tiers of Data Governance
Data governance can feel complex. One way to think about collective data governance is to think in tiers – governance, technical, legal, and data.
Checking for Duplicates is Easy
The process of checking for duplicates is relatively easy. Does that frog match this frog. Yes? you get the pair. No? next person’s turn.
Go Through The Window or Door?
It’s easy to tweak on the edges because tweaking the core is too hard. Are we just scared that we will be rejected, laughed at, fail or all three?
We need more experiments, not less
To find new ideas, we need more experiments and tests, not less. For every experiment that is repeatable, there are hundreds that don’t work.