Felix Ritchie Felix.Ritchie@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Economics
Using the ‘five safes’ to structure economic evaluations of data governance
Ritchie, Felix; Whittard, Damian
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Damian Whittard Damian2.Whittard@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Policy & Practice in Economics
Abstract
The ‘five safes’ is a popular data governance framework. It is used to design and critique data management strategies across the world, and has also been used as a performance framework to measure the effectiveness of data access operations. We report on a novel application of the five safes framework: to structure economic evaluation of data governance.
As the world has become more digitally-dependent, questions of data governance such as ethics, institutional arrangements and statistical protection measures have increased in significance. Understanding the economic contribution of investments in data sharing and data governance is highly problematic: outputs and outcomes are often widely dispersed and hard to measure, and value of those investments is very context-dependent.
The Five Safes was designed to allow structured investigation into data governance. Combining this with more traditional logic models can provide an evaluation methodology which is practical, reproducible and comparable. We illustrate this by considering the application of the combined logic model-Five Safes framework to agronomy investments in Ethiopia. We demonstrate how the Five Safes was used to generate the necessary context for a more traditional quantitative study, and consider lessons learned for the wider evaluation of data and data governance investments.
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Ritchie, F., & Whittard, D. Using the ‘five safes’ to structure economic evaluations of data governance
Deposit Date | Oct 18, 2022 |
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Publicly Available Date | Oct 19, 2022 |
Keywords | five safes, confidentiality, data governance |
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