Dear Onsika
 
Thanks for informing us about this initiative

Indeed it has been noted that one of the factors affecting development/research in Sub Saharan Africa has been lack information, or access. Majority of researchers/scientists have not been willing to share or provide their publication freely. This has led to duplication of efforts as well as limited citation of reference material while publishing.
It is in this regard that Forestry Research Network for Sub-Saharan Africa, with acronym FORNESSA,  http://fornis.net/ of which Im a Webmaster,. with the assistance IUFRO / GFIS set  an on-line documentation repository that provides full text forestry documents,  addressing 4 themes. intellectual Property rights notwithstanding, there are other avenues that contributors of publications benefit.
If individuals are encouraged to manage their own data/information without freely sharing, user centricity, I think the trend will continue to stifle intellectual development/capacity which is the driving factor of economic development, and as a result I think likewise the authors might not gain much from their work either.

In as much as we respect the voice of WEF as stated, I stand to slightly differ. As we move towards free open Internet and society, is it better to articulate virtues and ideals that will encourage and Invigorate the desire to share whatever we have with those who might be fervently looking/searching for them to do research,or rather than keep it ia a drawer to pile dust waiting to earn from them for years.

Onsika, this is just to appraise you of the other angle in this subject.

Charles


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Dear all,

ISOC places a lot of weight on user centricity in terms of individual users being in charge of their personal data when online. There have been concerted efforts worldwide, led by the World Economic Forum (WEF), to empower individual users to manage their personal data so that third parties and companies cannot access and use people's data wrongly (without notifying users or rewarding them?accordingly).

In this regard, I'm carrying out a survey to gauge the citizenry's perception on this very important 'commodity', as per the WEF. The target for this survey is majorly the Kenyan citizenry although other citizens (from other countries) are encouraged to give their feedback.?

The link for accessing the?survey?questionnaire is?https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dElISHFETFdhSHh1T1JsbWFTeXJFVUE6MQ#gid=0.?

Your feedback will very much be appreciated.

It is my hope that the survey findings can help ISOC Kenya (and Global), among other?entities, to lay better strategies when it comes to online data?security?and privacy.

Feel free to forward to your colleagues.

For any queries, do not hesitate to get in touch with the undersigned.
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Regards and many thanks,
Davis M Onsakia

'The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.' - Maureen Dowd
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