Survey - African Data Activities and Initiatives
An important activity of the African Open Science (incl. Open Data) Platform Project is to conduct an environmental scan of all data related activities/initiatives.  This survey seeks to gather information about data activities and initiatives for this purpose.

In scope are activities/initiatives on the African continent which may be doing (or planning to do) any of the following: developing research data strategies, designing and promoting open research data policies, managing data repositories (whether national, international or institutional/discipline specific), undertaking data management, training and capacity building in data skills, advancing data intensive science.

We are primarily concerned with activities that relate to 'research data': that is data created by research activities or for the purposes of research.  For the purpose of this survey, 'research' refers to all activities that comprise the research lifecycle: policy, ethics, data curation (incl. planning, management, preservation), data collection, data sharing, publishing of research results. Open government data and operational data collected by agencies that monitor the environment or society may also be used for research and so are in scope.  However, we are particular interested in activities that relate to data created for and by research activities.

This is a lightweight survey designed quickly to help us understand the landscape of existing or emerging initiatives.  It consists of 18 straightforward questions and should only take a few minutes to complete.  We request, however, that to inform us of more than one data initiative you complete the form multiple times. This applies to initiatives for which the information is openly accessible (in other words no login is required to access the information), or partially open.

Data collected will be shared with survey participants where permission is granted, and all participants will be kept up to date with regard to project developments, should you wish to receive communication in this regard (please see last question). Privacy: Personal details (name, email) will not be disclosed to any third party, and will be used for the purposes of this project only.

Please complete this survey no later than 31 January 2017. For inquiries, please contact: ina@assaf.org.za 

The project is funded by the South African Department of Science and Technology, and coordinated by ICSU-CODATA. The project is managed by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
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Contact Information
1. Name and Surname *
2. Job Title *
3. Email Address *
4. Organisation *
5. URL (web address) of Organisation *
Description of Data Activity
The following questions allow you to describe the data activity of which you are aware of or with which you may be directly involved.
6. Name of Data Activity *
7. Primary Contact for Data Activity *
Name of a person, organisation, email.
8. URL of Data Activity *
9. Which of the following applies to the Data Activity? *
Required
10. Description of Data Activity *
Please provide basic information about the initiative: we are particularly interested in its mission and the substantive scope of activity (e.g. policy, education, data management or stewardship, data integration and analysis etc).
11. How is the Data Activity funded? *
Required
12. Please describe in more detail how the Activity is funded, as well as the funding period? *
13. What is the Geographic Scope of the Activity?   *
We would like to know whether the initiative is pan-African, regional (e.g. east, west or southern African), national (which country) or institutional. Is this data initiative/activity also formally linked to other initiatives? Please provide more detail.
14. Any additional comments?
Please make any additional comments and pertinent information about the data activity described here.  If you have information about another data activity please complete the form again.
15. Please may we contact you for further project activities/additional information? *
16. Permission: please select
We will use this information to build a landscape report of data activity and to contact data initiatives for the purposes of the work of the African Open Science Platform.  So that we can do this effectively, please provide permission using the indicators below.  Data (apart from personal details of respondents) may be shared with survey participants where permission is granted.  Privacy: Personal details of respondents (name, email) and contact details of data initiative contacts will not be disclosed to any third party, and will be used for the purposes of this project only.  Please tick the applicable statements and leave open if no permission is granted or the statement is not true.
17. Would you like to be registered on the mailing list for this project, to be kept up to date? *
18. If you are aware of another data initiative and able to provide the information requested please complete the form again.  If you are aware of another data initiative that we should know about, but you do not have all the information, please tell us about it here so that we can follow up.
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