Data diaries: A situated approach to the study of data

Tkacz, Nathaniel; Martins, Mário Henrique da Mata; Albuquerque, João Porto de; Horita, Flávio E. A.; Dolif, Giovanni

doi:10.1177/2053951721996036

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“…This was a qualitative study using the governance diaries method. Governance diaries is an ethnographic approach using more than one method of data collection and where participants make regular records of their daily activities and experiences in relation to actors and who has power in their lives in the provision of social and economic services (46,47). For this study, governance diaries included in-depth interviews (IDIs), which were informed by participant diaries, informal discussions, participant observations and reflections.…”

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Complementarity of formal and informal actors and their networks in support of vulnerable populations in informal settlements: Governance diaries approach

Chumo

Kabaria

Shankland

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionBeyond several interests and speculations on the relationship between formal and informal actors and their networks in support of vulnerable populations, most studies do not conclusively establish whether the two types of support are substitutes or complements. While informal care and formal care may be substitutes in general, they are complements among the vulnerable groups. Despite how some studies have described complementarity, further insights on the synergy between formal and informal actors and networks are needed to pinpoint how to maximize policy and interventions to alleviate the challenges facing vulnerable groups in informal settlements.MethodsWe conducted an ethnography using governance diaries with 24 participants in Korogocho and Viwandani informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. The governance diaries approach involved conducting bi-weekly governance in-depth interviews (IDIs) with study participants for 4 months, complemented with observations, reflections, participant diaries and informal discussions. We used framework analysis approach.FindingsInformal actors identified include family, neighbors, friends, community groups and community members, and their direct networks. Formal actors on the other hand included government institutions, individuals and authorities that make policies and rules and their desired and possible networks. Both the formal and informal actors and their networks had complementary roles that were beneficial to the vulnerable populations living and working in informal settlements. The complementarities between formal and informal actors and networks in supporting vulnerable groups were portrayed in roles and responsibilities to the vulnerable groups; rules, regulations and governance in supporting vulnerable groups; knowledge, skills and dynamic workforces among formal and informal actors and their networks; information flow on health and wellbeing to the vulnerable populations; transition of actors in supporting vulnerable groups; availability, access and involvement of formal and informal actors and networks to support vulnerable groups. The complementarities allowed for maximum support of the vulnerable populations than otherwise.ConclusionWe conclude that informal social support is needed regardless of the availability of formal social support. Moreover, a combination of formal and informal actors and related networks are essential to support vulnerable persons. Formal actors should establish, support, or maintain the informal actors and related networks through goodwill and sundry incentives as a vital dimension of building with local community structures and enhancing inclusion, participation and ownership of policy and program interventions by marginalized and vulnerable groups.

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Complementarity of formal and informal actors and their networks in support of vulnerable populations in informal settlements: Governance diaries approach

Chumo

Kabaria

Shankland

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…This was a qualitative study using the governance diaries method. Governance diaries is an ethnographic approach using more than one method of data collection and where participants make regular records of their daily activities and experiences [ 34 – 36 ]. Governance diaries are typically used in contexts where there is a need to explore the depth of everyday life, as time allows researchers to spend longer periods in the field for exploration [ 34 , 37 ].…”

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Mapping social accountability actors and networks and their roles in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in childcare centres within Nairobi’s informal settlements: A governance diaries approach

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Introduction Despite many institutions gaining access to improved water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, childcare centres in informal settlements have low access and poor condition of WASH services. It is imperative to understand how existing actors and social networks operate in the WASH sector in childcare centres in Nairobi’s informal settlements. Objective To empirically map and understand how different actors within informal settlements influence the provision of adequate and quality water, sanitation and hygiene services within childcare centres in Nairobi’s informal settlements. Methods This was a qualitative study. We conducted an ethnographic study using governance diaries with 24 participants from Korogocho and Viwandani informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. The governance diaries approach involved conducting bi-weekly governance in-depth interviews (IDIs) with study participants for 4 months, complemented with observations, reflections, participant diaries and informal discussions. We used a framework analysis which is partly deductive, informed by the governance framework and stakeholder framework. Results Social accountability actors were individuals or groups involved in WASH service provision in childcare centres. The actors included both key actors (actors who are primary to meeting the day-to-day WASH service needs of children) and non-key actors (actors operating in the WASH sector but not always present for day-to-day provision in childcare centres). The key actors were unanimously identified as childcare centre owners/teachers and parents/guardians as they had a more direct role in the provision of WASH services in childcare centres. The actors had direct, possible or desired networks, with the direct networks portrayed more by the parents and childcare centre owners, whose roles included acting as a voice and responding to the WASH service needs of children as it relates to access and quality. Centre owners had more power/authority over WASH services for children in childcare centres than the parents. Key actors derived power by their discretion depending on whether a decision was beneficial to children or not. Lastly, the interest of key actors were diverse ranging from income generation, access to WASH services by children, compliance with government regulations, and promotion of child health, to the prevention of the spread of diseases. Conclusion Our study highlights that parents and childcare owners play an important role in WASH service provision. While service providers and other players may be statutorily given primary responsibilities for WASH provision, and more visible in official standing, among study participants they are not seen as primary actors but secondary players with ancillary responsibilities. We conclude that WASH service provision in child care centres may be realised when key actors have a voice and work within networks to demand WASH services from desired networks including the government. We also conclude that developing more direct networks and converting desired and potential networks into direct networks in WASH service provision is critical for the success of WASH service delivery. Lastly, actors in WASH services in childcare centres may need to collaborate in identifying potential avenues for strengthening existing networks that enhance access and quality of WASH services in childcare centres.

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“…Indeed, Leonelli (2016) documents in minute detail the work (in terms of curation and explication of research procedures and practices) needed in advance of data sharing and reuse. Third, an increasing body of research documents the affordances associated with data release in the global south (Collyer 2018;Koopman and Jager 2016), documenting an increasing awareness of the situatedness (Leonelli 2017;Tkacz et al 2021) and mutability of data practices. The discourse on research data management, and relatedly practices of data sharing and use, documents an astounding variability of data types, data amounts, data practices, and approaches to data sharing.…”

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Data sharing for global, unspecified reuse

Reichmann¹

2022

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This contribution has originally been conceived as the introduction to my dissertation, to be submitted in February 2022 to the University of Graz (Department of Sociology). In the dissertation, I take up the vast discourse on data sharing to argue that until now, the most influential positions (exemplified in the works of philosopher Sabina Leonelli and information scientists Christine L. Borgman) have construed their subject matter rather narrowly, both in terms of the dominant case studies as well as in focusing on the narrowly stated epistemic goals of the Open Science movement (of ensuring reproducibility, transparency, and data reuse, say). I take issue with both of these claims based on a series of empirical case studies, to show that data sharing is broader than has hitherto been assumed, especially in terms of its aims which have, by and large, been modelled along the lines of enabling unspecified, global data reuse. With this preprint, I explain what this means based on an analysis of three discourses, all pertaining to data sharing: Discussions predominantly found within information science documenting a tremendous variability of data types, formats, practices, and sharing behaviour, and an empirical literature that has frequently overlooked the difficulties in accounting for data practices at the level of faculties, research groups, departments, or universities, as well as a more critical discourse that has recently emerged around the factors that inhibit data sharing and reuse, such as the situatedness and contextuality of data practices. The contribution documents a growing awareness of the situated nature of data practices, in particular with respect to research activities in the global south. It further documents mounting evidence for what has been called data contextuality, discussions that ensued from the observation, already a decade old, that “data” are impossible to define, leading to a view now known as the relational view of data (data as potential evidence for knowledge claims).

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Data diaries: A situated approach to the study of data

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Complementarity of formal and informal actors and their networks in support of vulnerable populations in informal settlements: Governance diaries approach

Complementarity of formal and informal actors and their networks in support of vulnerable populations in informal settlements: Governance diaries approach

Mapping social accountability actors and networks and their roles in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in childcare centres within Nairobi’s informal settlements: A governance diaries approach

Data sharing for global, unspecified reuse

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