Module 1 Handbook

You may come across people who are resistant to sharing due to lack of trust or not seeing the benefits

Symptoms

Within grants you could recognise this by:

• lack of trust in the data produced
• lack of incentives to collect quality data
• data being used as a ‘bargaining chip’
• benefits of sharing not well understood
• concerns others will unfairly benefit from data collected and shared

Solutions

You can provide examples of where FAIR and safeguarded data has delivered benefits to all involved.

You can review case studies showcasing the benefits of delivering FAIR and safeguarded data and how challenges have been overcome in the toolbox. 

You will find three summarised examples in the next section.