Potential opportunities and risks of sharing agricultural research data in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorKatabalwa, Anajoyce Samuel
dc.contributor.authorBates, Jo
dc.contributor.authorAbbott, Pamela
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-09T08:53:39Z
dc.date.available2025-05-09T08:53:39Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionJournal article
dc.description.abstractPurpose: The purpose of this paper was to examine the potential opportunities and risks of sharing agricultural research data in Tanzania identified in the existing research literature. Design/methodology/approach: The study involved a review of the literature on research data sharing practices. Findings: The findings indicate that, research data sharing has significant positive benefits among researchers such as increased high research impact; enhancing international community collaboration among researchers with same interests; improving scientific transparency and accuracy of data (Rappert and Bezuidenhout, 2016); increasing research output whereby a single dataset can be used to generate more than one article by different authors; and many more. The risks hampering data sharing practices include researchers’ fears that data will be scooped, poached or misused (Onyancha, 2016); unreliable electric power; lack of funding to support research data sharing activities; absence of institutional governmental support for data management; perceived lack of benefits for data sharing (Leonelli, Rappert and Bezuidenhout, 2018); and others. However, in Tanzania research data sharing is relatively new, thus, there are no governmental agency(ies) mandating or encouraging research data sharing; therefore, there is no research data management; no research open data repositories and no research data sharing policy at any agricultural institution in Tanzania. The study recommends that agricultural researchers should be encouraged to share their data, research data policy and data repositories should also be established to support data sharing practices in Tanzania. Originality and usefulness: From the available literature, this has been the first time that an effort has been made to examine the potential opportunities and risks of sharing agricultural research data in Tanzania. The study could be used by agricultural institutions and other institutions to assess the researchers’ needs in supporting research data sharing. Also, it can be used by the government and institutions to see the need of establishing open data repositories and open data policies to support research data sharing.
dc.identifier.citationhttps://doi.org/10.29173/iq997
dc.identifier.issn0739-1137
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/6724
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWhite Rose
dc.subjectResearch data sharing
dc.subjectopen data repositories
dc.subjectresearch data policy
dc.subjectagricultural institutions
dc.subjectTanzania
dc.titlePotential opportunities and risks of sharing agricultural research data in Tanzania
dc.typeArticle

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