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Data availability and quality in authoritarian regimes is a well known challenge for researchers. In recent years, open government data provided new opportunities for data-driven research. Based on a case study on Tanzania, however, Ruth D. Carlitz and Rachael McLellan show in their article "Open Data from Authoritarian Regimes: New Opportunities, New Challenges" that open data can be biased. The authors provide a helpful framework to anticipate and detect data manipulation in authoritarian contexts, that might be useful for studying post-Soviet countries as well.

posted by Eduard Klein, 4 years, 11 months ago , Discuss Data