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She defines four key domains
for data governance and
appropriate data stewardship,
including ethical oversight
and informed consent
processes; data protection
through data access controls;
sustainability of ethical data
use; and the application of
relevant legislation. She
believes that improving data
governance ensures a secure
and trustworthy environment
for data sharing, which in
turn can facilitate appropriate
secondary use of data.
Key domains for data
governance and
appropriate data
stewardship
In response to these considerations, a
Data Access Working Group (DAWG) was
established to provide direction in the
review and approval of requests from
bona fide data users from the internal/
external research community to access
sensitive research data generated at UCT,
comprising either restricted or confidential
data. The working group is mandated to
review each request received following
standardised procedures and consider the
access mechanisms, particularly relating
to personal information or commercial
interests. The establishment of the DAWG
under the oversight of the Research Data
Governance Committee, itself a subcommittee of the University Research
Committee, serves to enhance the existing
data-governance framework at UCT. This
framework is implemented by the Research
Contracts and Innovation office (RC&I).
For RC&I’s Dr Andrew Bailey, the DAWG
bridges the gap in providing secure access
to sensitive data, assisting researchers
to comply with both emerging regulatory
frameworks, and the terms of data sharing
conditional of funding and scholarly
publishing in Open Science.
1
Ethical
oversight and
informed consent
processes
3
2
Data protection
through data
access controls
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Sustainability
of ethical data
use
4
Application of
relevant
legislation
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