There is widespread provision of data and software on computing science papers in academia. It's currently a piecemeal approach, which is a problem, but here's

There is widespread provision of data and software on computing science papers in academia. It's currently a piecemeal approach, which is a problem, but here's an example of how things are changing: http://conf.researchr.org/track/pldi2015/PLDI+2015+Artifact+Evaluation http://conf.researchr.org/track/pldi2015/PLDI+2015+Artifact+... Universities all over the world are working on repositories to store electronic resources such as data and code for the long-term. This is non-trivial, as data may need to be available for decades or even hundreds of years. Github, by contrast, has been around for 7 years. Regarding the idea of organising research in a more change-control fashion, that's a more radical change. Academia will move slowly, and rightly so, as research practices evolve and persists for hundreds of years; to adopt an idea based on a (relatively, very) new method of software development is hugely risky.