(1) The document discusses the SAFARI Syndrome, which occurred when a 1974 French government project to create a centralized database of personal information was leaked to the media and then suspended due to public backlash over privacy and surveillance concerns.
(2) It notes similar contemporary concerns regarding CRIS systems from researchers worried about privacy, transparency, and administrative control. Ethics and legal issues regarding data protection and intellectual property are important considerations for CRIS.
(3) To prevent a "SAFARI syndrome" reaction and gain acceptance, CRIS projects must have transparent communication, include legal experts, respect privacy, and adopt principles of open science through community involvement and transparent data processing. Centralization should not come at
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Safari syndrome
1. The SAFARI Syndrome
Implementing CRIS and Open Science
By Joachim Sch旦pfel, University of Lille 3
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2. From object to subject
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3. The human factor
Objectives
Evaluation, reporting, funding, governance
Values and ethics
Academic freedom, efficiency of management, control
Rights
Privacy, intellectual property
Public/user
Research manager, scientist, authority
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4. (1) Ethics, object of CRIS
Emerging trend
Low priority (same level as biohazards)
Part of legal feasibility
Ethical handling
Of intellectual property
Of data protection laws
Sensitive information in CRIS, reason of access restrictions
Related to institutions
Related to persons
Part of research process
Ethical advisors
Ethical reviews
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5. (2) Ethics, barrier of CRIS
束 A legalistic barrier to research data management 損
Privacy, together with national security and foreign access to sensitive data
as barriers to a wider use of CRIS
Externalized problem
As a societal issue
As a governmental issue
束 Sometimes, law and ethics get in the way 損
Fears and concerns of researchers
About privacy
About control
About transparency
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6. Scepticism and Resistance Reasons for the Fears
Resistance aginst a Science Management inspired by the principles of New Public
Management including Measurement & Management;
Nostalgic Clinging to the old German Humboldt-Model with its Freedom of
Research and Higher Education without any Measurement or Management.
The currently Bad Reputation of Social Networks, that secretly collect
Informations about our Life and Disposition and sell them to who-knows-who,
and that especially the Scientists Profiles of CRI-Systems are quite similar to.
The currently Bad Reputation of Companies like Google, that secretly track us
surfing in the Internet or using Google-Products like Google+ and Google-Mail and
sell these Informations to who-knows-who,
and that especially the automated Import of Data from external Sources and the
intelligent Mapping to Persons reminds of.
Distrust in THEM in Supervisory Board, Executive Board and Central Ad-
ministration, who with a CRIS in their hands would have another instrument
to end the Freedom of Academia,
to erect a System of Surveillance made to control and to exploit Scientists,
to justify the next Dismissals, Wage Cuts and Budget Cuts.
Source: Fondermann 2012
7. In particular
Evaluation is (often) a problem, not (always) a solution
Time consuming, lack of transparency, rejection rate
Governance: ruling the campus like an automobile company?
Efficiency vs freedom, outcome control, assessment procedures
Budget cuts
Historical experience with (resistance to) centralism
Conflicting interests, organisational complexity (束 millefeuille 損)
Adopting UK, D, No, NL solutions?
Outsourcing of data production and control
Where have all the start-ups gone?
Public debate (again) on surveillance, privacy and public freedom
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8. Why SAFARI?
1974 project of French government to
interconnect personal data files and create a
centralized database through the use of a
unique identifier (INSEE code, social security
number)
One day after leaking by project team
members to the journal Le Monde, the
project was suspended by French president
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9. The SAFARI syndrome
A good (?) idea
Increasing efficiency
Centralized database
Interconnection of
administrative data files
Use of personal data
Use of a unique identifier (INSEE
code, social security number)
An unexpected outcome
Leaking by project members
Debate on surveillance and
public liberty in media and
parliament
Massive rejection of project
束 Hunting French citizens 損
At the end, the first law on
privacy to protect citizens
against government
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10. Back to the campus
High valuation of (academic) freedom
#JeSuisCharlie
Awareness of privacy issues
Rejection of surveillance
束 Privacy concerns can prevent stakeholders individuals, governments,
academia, and companies - from sharing their data 損 (Haak et al 2012)
Scientists (mostly) like their ivory tower
Rejection of administrative extra work
Capacity of creating complex situations
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11. How to prevent the SAFARI syndrom
CRIS is not (only) a problem of IT management
Political governance
Top-down or bottom-up?
Development of a culture of information
Open and proactive communication
Integration of legal expert in project team
Impact evaluation
CRIS and funding?
CRIS and resource attribution?
Provision of safeguards for anonymity and privacy of research participants
Who controls the data?
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Transparent processing
Community science
Open data
etc.
A changing paradigm
13. CRIS w/ or v Open Science?
Adopting the new paradigm (and taking it seriously)
No two-tiered strategy
(Re)placing the scientist at the heart of the process
Focusing on community concerns, needs and values
Addressing privacy issues not as barriers
But as objective
Learning from historical experience
Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human
events ever resemble those of preceding times. (Machiavelli)
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息2010-2015 EddyCamara
#7: I identified several Resons for these Fears and Concerns:
Resistance against New Public Management
The currently Bad Reputation of Social Networks
The currently Bad Reputation of Google etc.
Distrust in THEM in the Supervisory Board, Executive Board and Central Administration.