Editorial: Information sharing-Easy to say much harder to do than we want to believe!
Editorial: Information sharing-Easy to say much harder to do than we want to believe!
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社论:信息共享——说起来容易做起来比我们想象的要困难得多!
DOI:
10.1080/09540962.2019.1611231
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Wilson R
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作者:
Wilson R
At that point, the immediate landscape seemed depressingly familiar in terms of the sorts of presenting problems we were asked to focus on in thinking through the issues of the sharing of information. These were the ‘veterans’ of the past 20 years (or more) of UK policy of integrating health and social care, children, young people and families and place-based initiatives (for example ‘total place’, devolution and so on)(Wilson, Martin, Walsh, & Richter, 2011; Cornford, Wilson, Baines, & Richardson, 2013; McLoughlin, Wilson, & Martin, 2013; Richardson & Asthana, 2013; Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing, 2018). We were a group of academics and practitioners who had been working on aspects of the data and information sharing challenge for over 15 years. We set out with a laudable, but perhaps ambitious, aim for our seminar series, which was to make information sharing success the norm rather than the exception, through new research, policy impact activity and knowledge exchange, nationally and internationally. A number of our informed hunches about information sharing as a domain were confirmed through the series of events that showed that the information sharing problem is truly heterogeneous and spread across a wide variety of academic disciplines, policies, practices, professional and temporal contexts (Dawes, 1996; Gil-Garcia, Chengalur-Smith, & Duchessi, 2007; Bellamy, Raab, Warren, & Heeney, 2007; Yang & Maxwell, 2011; Bharosa, Lee, & Janssen, 2012; Wilson & Gray, 2015). One of our engagements included the launch of Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing at the Cabinet Office in London, where we were regaled with a story of information sharing in Napoleonic times and the route that the information of victory at the Battle of Trafalgar took to reach the government in London (271 miles, 38 hours, 21 changes of horse—known as the ‘Trafalgar Way’: an early information supply chain tale). Other sessions included the use of local government and business information for research data, including the challenges faced by Big Data initiatives in acquiring data in the face of public sector austerity and commercial interests, and taking the UK Census by moving from a survey-based approach to the collection of information via intermediaries. We also heard from the Nesta-funded Office of Data Analytics initiative in devolution areas in England; and about the emerging ways in which fire and rescue services think and use data and information changing from a historical propertybased focus to a wider lens of community safety. Finally, we discovered the international perspectives from the USA, Italy, New Zealand and Australia where the term has different meaning and a range of framings from disaster management, labour markets and personal privacy. We can observe much from this ‘rich tapestry’but, for us, the striking thing was that diversity of context was often allied to homogeneity in nature of the joining-up problem. The contributions in our PMM theme reflect this and naturally fall into two categories. First, the learning going on in the doing of information sharing where those working on, in and with complex applied areas report on their observations about the challenges of the messiness of information sharing. The second part is comprised of contributions taking a step back from the melee of the information sharing practice to examine the conceptual framings underlying the prevailing assumptions about the means and ends of data and information sharing.