An important function offered by a Project Management Information System is the possibility of sharing data concerning the running projects across the project team and their surroundings.
The Home Office has been embarrassed by revelations that it shares data concerning UK citizens with the NSA in America - at a level previously beyond democratic oversight - and it is now cravenly trying to put the rabbit back in the hat.
The American Legacy Foundation graciously shared data concerning expenditures in each of 200 designated market areas in the U.S. for their national anti-tobacco media campaign for each year from 2000 to 2003.
For those respondents who had experience with depositing or sharing data, concerns and reasons were solicited by asking about actual experience; for those without data depositing or sharing experience, concerns and reasons were solicited by asking about hypothetical situations.
Further since this application provides due recognition and acknowledgment to the database owner and does not share actual data, concerns related to propriety and security are nullified.
Almost 80% of the respondents cited intellectual property/patent concerns as a potential barrier to the sharing of TGx data, and nearly 50% of respondents also cited concerns about variability in data formats, interplatform differences, concerns about potential for misinterpretation, lack of incentive to share data, and legal concerns.
Conclusions We found strong support for sharing clinical trial data among corresponding authors of recently published trials in high impact general medical journals who responded to our survey, including a willingness to share data, although several practical concerns were identified.
Some countries may be reluctant to share data, because they have legitimate concerns about not getting credit for producing it, or being harmed as a result of sharing it.
While many customers will either not opt in or will choose not to share data due in part to privacy concerns, even a relatively small sample can provide striking insights if it covers enough foot traffic over a given time period.
Congress' workplace misconduct office won't share data with the senator because of concerns with "inaccuracies". "Let's not play games," one senator said.
