Global Digital Data Governance

This book provides a nuanced exploration of digital data governance, highlighting the importance of cooperation across sectors to adapt to an evolving technological landscape. This will interest students and scholars of Development Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, and Communication Studies.

Carolina Aguerre is Associate Professor at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Honorary Co-Director at the Centro de Estudios en Tecnología y Sociedad (CETYS), Universidad de San Andres, Argentina, and Associate Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, Information and Culture, and Palabra Clave, as well as book chapters. Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the Department of International Relations and International Organization, University of Groningen, Netherlands, and Associate Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His recent publications have appeared in journals including Anthropology Today, Environment & Planning C, New Political Economy, and Security Dialogue. Jan Aart Scholte is Chair of Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University, Netherlands, and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research covers globalization, governing global affairs, civil society in global politics, global democracy, legitimacy in global governance, and Internet governance. Previously, he co-edited volumes in the Routledge Global Cooperation Series on Power and Authority in Internet Governance: A Return of the State? (with Blayne Haggart and Natasha Tusikov) and Hegemony and World Order: Reimagining Power in Global Politics (with Piotr Dutkiewicz and Tom Casier).

1. Introduction: Polycentric Perspectives on Digital Data Governance PART I Perspectives 2. Nudging the Ostroms' Vision of the Commons on Polycentric Governance into the Digital Environment 3. Internet Interoperability and Polycentric Attributes in Global Digital Data Ordering 4. The Challenges of Governance in a Datascape: Theorizing the Role of Non-extractive Methodologies in the 2030 Agenda 5. Grassroots Data Activism and Polycentric Governance: Perspectives from the Margins 6. Questions as a Device for Data Responsibility: Making Data Science Responsible by Formulating Questions in a Polycentric Way PART II Controversies 7. Decentralized but Coordinated: Probing Polycentricity in EU Data Protection Cross-border Enforcement 8. Trade Agreements and Cross-border Disinformation: Patchwork or Polycentric? 9. Trackers and Chasers: Governance Challenges in Disinformation Datafication 10. Privacy Governance from a Polycentric Perspective PART III Technologies 11. Global Data Governance by Internet Interconnection 12. The Distributions of Distributed Governance: Power, Instability and Complexity in Polycentric Data Ordering 13. Polycentric Theory Diffusion and AI Governance 14. Conclusion: The End of a Beginning