Introduction

This handbook is designed to help you to answer the Module 3 activity questions.

Data for digitally-enabled services is often required from multiple third parties, such as:

  • geographic data
  • population and socioeconomic data
  • sample data from previous projects. 

In this module you will explore barriers to and techniques for reusing such data.

This module will enable you to:
  • understand rights and permissions in data
  • identify open, shared and closed data
  • obtain rights to reuse third party data
  • consider compatibility with existing country and funder policies
  • consider reliability and interoperability of data from third party sources
  • make decisions for using data from third party sources
  • understand stakeholder roles in the data ecosystem
  • map a data ecosystem
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