The Benefits for Data Sharing and Current Chagllenges

What are the benefits for data sharing? Prof. Usman Iqbal will further explain how data sharing helps the researcher, scientific communities, student, public and funding agencies. Then he will point out the challenges of data sharing.

At the final slide, Porf. Iqbal give some links of open data sources:

•Harvard university Open Health Data

•United Kingdom, Government digital service, DATA.GOV.UK

•WHO, Global Health

Take some time to review each website. On thier website, click on “support” or “about” section and you can see the purpose and potential services that each website provided. Do they anything in common? Feel free to share what you find out that is interesting.