Seth wrote about chatoyancy recently. I don’t know what opposite sophisticated word to chatoyancy is, but we experience it often
Opposite of Chatoyancy
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From the Blog on data sharing
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.
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.
File Sharing
How organisational systems are set up tell you about those who created them. Restricting file sharing doesn’t stop it, peope use workarounds.
Brittle or Robust?
One system that is centralised can help build capacity and scale, but then too often it falls apart. And things become brittle and fragile.
Figuring out ‘People Centred Data Management’
Earlier this year, we received some funding to explore the governance details of how to put ‘people at the centre of data management’.
Surprises
Many of us do not surprises. Almost all of us do not like negative surprises – from surprise parties, to car break downs, and yes, our data.