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Best Practices/Motivate Stakeholders via Bonuses
Share-PSI 2.0 Best Practice
Source: Best Practices/Encouragement via bonuses
Contents
Outline of the best practice
The introduction of new directives may happen much faster if there is some kind of bonus or benefit promised when implementing it.
Management summary
Challenge
Sometimes new directives are slowly accepted and remain inefficient for longer time. Often, the new directives require significant cultural change, or change of habits developed over decades. Also, various valid or invalid personal or group interests may block the spread of the new directive.
Solution
The bonus offered may be direct such as a funding or faster career, and indirect such as prestige or visibility. So people or companies applying the new directive should feel this benefit in a short term.
When DFG said that there should be a plan for sharing research data in research proposals, it had a fast effect, as proposals with better data sharing received more funding. Thus, repositories emerged serving the needs of these proposals.
Best Practice identification
Why is this a Best Practice? What’s the impact of the Best Practice
It suggests a policy recommendation that can advance the spread of the new PSI directive.
Links to the PSI Directive
Why is there a need for this Best Practice?
Stakeholders need to be motivated. For example, researchers tend to protect their data, so that they have priority in harvesting the fruits from their data. Many players are reluctant to open up their data. However, if researchers get more citations because of sharing data, they might have a faster career, so they feel the incentive of sharing their data. If companies gain reputation or better visiblity, they might get the incentive to open up data.
What do you need for this Best Practice?
Need to introduce a new policy that will provided bonuses to key players in the process of producing and consuming public sector information.
Applicability by other Member States
The approach is applicable to any Member State.
Contact info
micsik@sztaki.hu