The main users are probably researchers who have collected data in/about Kenya. They may be based outside of Kenya but would like to “repatriate” their data to so that those in Kenya
While the archive was initially imagined as digitally storing ethnographic data that is relevant for researchers in Nairobi/Kenya, the archive has been thus far used less for this
All members of the group have the permissions needed to upload artifacts but this often seems overly laborious, especially since many of the artifacts are first shared on a WhatsApp...Read more
Yes, definitely. The archive provides the technical scaffolding for articulating ourselves as a community of scholar activists / activist scholars interested in exploring what it might look...Read more
I (Angela Okune) began to conceptualize establishing an instance of PECE in the middle of 2018, about 6 months prior to beginning my fieldwork in Nairobi in January 2019. I conceptualized...Read more
Much of my personal research materials are open and available to be re-used under CC licenses. There are a few completely private spaces (where I am the only person that has access to...Read more
This archive was designed against the growing commercial encroachment of public knowledge commons. I saw open research data (governance) as an incredibly important and time-sensitive...Read more
www.researchdatashare.org is hosted on Linode servers located in Frankfurt, Germany since at the time of installation, those...Read more
This is the draft preface to a collaborative dissertation chapter reflecting on the Research Data KE Working Group (forthcoming). This is shared in advance of the June 10, 2021 CfE Para-Site event.Read more