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The collection thematic area contains information on the volumes of ewaste
that is collected from households in the selected metropolitan areas,
collection methods that are harnessed in collecting municipal solid waste
(including e-waste), financing of municipal solid waste collection activities
and the involvement of the informal sector in collecting e-waste from
municipal solid waste management facilities.

The technology thematic area describes the technology that is being used to
treat obsolete e-waste, quantities of e-waste dismantled into components
(including dismantling technology used) and refurbished per annum.

The closed loop thematic area summarises the e-waste market in each
metropolitan area by identifying the number of market participants in the
ewaste market, the marketing routes for e-waste fractions, imports and exports
of e-waste fractions, the local downstream and recycling options currently in
use for different fractions, second-hand practices, reuse and refurbishment
practices.

The finance and legislation thematic area identifies the financing (taxes,
fees, costs) and legislative provisions that impact on the municipal solid
waste and e-waste in each of the eight metropolitan areas in Africa and
Europe. The assessment tools that were used in collecting the data in the
initial instance will be preserved for comparison of data across metropolitan
areas and future reference. Separate files will be kept; one for freshly
collected data from the selected metropolitan areas and the other one for data
that would have been uploaded on the information portal.

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**Data quality & standards **

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While the project team is making significant efforts in upholding high data
collection standards, the quality of the data being produced will be adversely
impacted by the e-waste context (demographic, economic & infrastructural) in
each metropolitan area. Large and better developed metropolitan areas in
Africa and Europe produce higher quality quantitative data than the smaller
and less developed areas.

The use of the standardised assessment tool in collecting data across the
eight metropolitan areas will ensure that comparable data are gathered from
the selected cities. The adoption of the WEEE Directive for EEE categorisation
ensures that standardised data on e-waste generation and collection by
category is obtained across the eight metropolitan areas.

Documentation of data sources, including the method of data provision (e.g.
official statistics, studies, expert guesses, others) will be documented with
the data.

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**Data access & sharing **

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Policy makers in central government, municipalities, industrial users, the
informal sector, R&D organisations, universities, NGOs, participants and
stakeholders in the e-waste markets are the targeted main user groups that
will access the e-waste information portal for decision making purposes. Data
from the eight cities will be formatted, transformed and documented in a
common way that makes it comparable across the selected cities.

No online raw data will be distributed outside the consortium and only
Delivery Partners (DP) will have access to the raw data. Only Public documents
(PU) will be disseminated to the general public, unless otherwise agreed by
the Project Board (PB). A summary of document types and document sharing
envisaged is shown below.

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**Intellectual property**

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The database rights, copyrights and patents with regard to the information
contained in the information portal belong to the EWIT consortium.

Reasonable steps will be taken to protect the security and confidentiality of
the information contained in the portal. Written agreements between

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metropolitan areas in Africa and Europe and interested stakeholders
(universities, research & development institutions) will be required in cases
where information, retrieved from the portal is re-used for planning, research
and development purposes.

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**Data archiving & preservation **

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E-waste information contained in the portal will be preserved and archived to
ensure availability and access to such information in the long term. The
digital information could be deposited with a trusted digital archive where it
will be curated and handled according to good practices in digital
preservation. In addition to the distribution of the data through the e-waste
information portal, future long term use of the data will be ensured by
placing a copy of the data into a repository that safeguards the files.

The preserved information can be retrieved from the archives and be
electronically filtered and sorted using variables such as the metropolitan
area where it originated from, waste electrical and electronic equipment
(WEEE) category it falls under and the dates indicating when the information
was collected.

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**Main risks to data security**

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The EWIT Project Board together with the management team needs to develop a
framework to manage data access on the e-waste information portal and enhance
data security. The Project Board and management team will decide, among other
issues, on how to enforce permissions, restrictions and embargoes on
information. The team will also consider other data security issues such as
the publication of sensitive data, the appropriateness of off-network storage,
the downloading and storage of information on devices such as personal
computers and laptops.

The main risks to data security envisaged in this project are:

  * Unauthorised downloading and re-use of information retrieved from the e-waste information portal 

  

Release of data from within metropolitan municipalities before being checked
for accuracy and authenticity

  * Accidental damage or malicious modification of e-waste data 

  

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