Attendees will work together to capture and preserve federally-funded data that was previously publicly-available on the USAID's knowledge platform. Co-hosted by RDAP, DataFirst, and ICPSR, attendees of all skill levels are invited to join us in capturing, describing, uploading, and preserving at-risk federal data to contribute to the Data Rescue Project. For this data rescue, we will be focusing on education data collected by USAID. There will be a brief introduction to the session led by members of the Data Rescue Project Team and members of the team will be available to answer questions and provide assistance.
Please send any questions to Tess Grynoch at past-pres@rdapassociation.org.
DataFirst is a research data service based at the University of Cape Town, dedicated to promoting open access to African microdata for high-quality research and evidence-informed policymaking. DataFirst curates, harmonizes, and supports the use of survey and administrative data, while building capacity among data producers and users across the continent.
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) is an international consortium of more than 800 academic institutions and research organizations. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 350,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences, including DataLumos, a crowdsourced repository for at-risk US federal government data.
To protect participant privacy, RDAP's AI Policy will also be in effect during the Hackathon. Digital meeting participants (AI bots) will not be allowed in the Zoom room unless prior arrangements have been made with the organizer. Captions will be available through the built-in Zoom captioning. The session will not be recorded. All registrants will receive a copy of the previously recorded presentation and any updated instruction documents.
