3.3 Raising Awareness Allocation of resources on data collection systems should be intertwined with raising awareness among professionals of the value of administrative data, including data sharing. Even when an appropriate legal framework is in place, State agencies might adopt their own policies that restrict access to administrative records – usually due to confidentiality, public safety or national security concerns.44 Thus, raising awareness in public administration circles should aim at achieving better understanding that sharing data and maintaining the highest standards of data confidentiality are not mutually exclusive. At the same time, policies should be aiming at instilling a culture of information stewardship rather than information ownership.45 Awareness-raising efforts should address the need for releasing administrative data into the public domain (so-called Open Data).46 Although release of datasets containing personal information, even when data are anonymised, remains questionable in the context of privacy protection47, States should release data about the performance of relevant State agencies – child justice authorities, social welfare institutions and migration authorities (e.g. number of children residing in State-run or State-authorised institutions). In addition, States should engage in proactive dissemination of information on the performance of these agencies and facilitate access to administrative records by designing user-friendly data platforms. Last but not least, the threefold framework described above should be implemented in line with the principle of child participation. This requires that children’s voices are taken into account at every stage of designing data collection mechanisms – during the consultations within legislative procedures, when allocating resources, designing tools for officers responsible for data collection and analysing data on children. In the following section of the Study, the perspectives of children are incorporated into a chapter dedicated to their perceptions of detention – an aspect frequently overlooked in the process of designing data collection frameworks.48 Similarly, the section also points to the lack of clear data sets and administrative records with regard to the disability, gender and health implications faced by children deprived of liberty.49 44 Tung-Mou Yang & Terrence A. Maxwell, ‘Information-sharing in public organizations: A literature review of interpersonal, intraorganizational and inter-organizational success factors’, Government Information Quarterly, Vol. 28(2), 2011, pp. 164–175. 45 Ibid. 46 Joseph A. Cannataci, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, A/72/43103, 19 October 2017, paras. 77-87. 47 Joseph A. Cannataci, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, A/73/45712, 17 October 2018, para. 67. 48 See Chapter 5 on Views and Perspectives of Children Deprived of Liberty. 49 See also Chapters 6, 7 & 8. 55