{"id":1572,"date":"2018-11-08T07:17:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T07:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2018-11-08T07:17:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T07:17:46","slug":"humans-of-data-027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/humans-of-data-027\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Data 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Zukie-IMG_6253-fav-colour-size.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1575\" src=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Zukie-IMG_6253-fav-colour-size-1024x658.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Zukie-IMG_6253-fav-colour-size-1024x658.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Zukie-IMG_6253-fav-colour-size-300x193.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Zukie-IMG_6253-fav-colour-size-768x494.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Zukie-IMG_6253-fav-colour-size-624x401.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m trying to create awareness for researchers on opening up their own data.\u00a0 Before working [on open data] I didn\u2019t know anything about it.\u00a0 If people open up their data there is so much more that can be done.\u00a0 You can share ideas, review someone else\u2019s data and find something that they didn\u2019t find before.\u00a0 I feel that\u2019s very important.<\/p>\n<p>I feel when people open up their data, it\u2019s no longer people competing with each other &#8211; they\u2019re helping each other to make the world a better place.\u00a0 If you keep something to yourself you might not see everything in it that might improve the world.\u00a0 But if you share it with peers, someone else might discover something that might make the world a better place.<\/p>\n<p>We have the data but [currently] we\u2019re not the owners of the data.\u00a0 Africa needs to step up.\u00a0 We need to be partners in research.\u00a0 We need to open up our data and also to own our data.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2019m trying to create awareness for researchers on opening up their own data.\u00a0 Before working [on open data] I didn\u2019t know anything about it.\u00a0 If people open up their data there is so much more that can be done.\u00a0 You can share ideas, review someone else\u2019s data and find something that they didn\u2019t find before.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humans-of-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}