Factors that contribute to an enabling environment

You will find the following factors contribute to an enabling environment:

Policies, legal and regulatory frameworks

  • Open data or data sharing and access policies
  • Data protection laws
  • Rights and freedoms of citizens to make use of data
  • Regulations on transparency and data sharing (for example tensions over land or borders could restrict data collection)
  • Competition laws

Community norms and practices

  • Adoption/misinterpretation of legal and regulatory frameworks
  • Domain specific policies (e.g. professional codes of conduct)
  • Ethical codes of practice
  • Adoption of standards and common practices for collection, storage and sharing of data
  • Embargo periods
  • Cultural considerations

Access to technology

  • Availability or reliability of the internet 
  • Availability of technology (nationally or institutionally) 
  • Level of access to procure and pay for technology
Graphic showing triangular link between legal-access-community, factors that contribute to an enabling environment