Global Digital Data Governance | Polycentric Perspectives | Carolina A
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This book provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary digital data governance, highlighting the importance of cooperation across sectors and disciplines in

(Reproducing this from Fission Talk)

Below I will add in my condensed chapter notes. Each chapter is available as its own paper on the book website 1 if you want to just pick and choose. Many of these chapters were presented as papers at the Internet Governance Forum in 2022.

Here is the TOC for your reference:

  • Chad KohalykOPMEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Ch 5: Grassroots Data Activism and Polycentric Governance: Perspectives from the Margins

    • data activism practices enable novel avenues for citizen data sharing and digital commons.
    • ‘algorithmic coloniality’
    • facilitate the reproduction of the ‘hierarchies of race, gender and geopolitics’ that served to actuate colonial control
    • examples like Ushahidi, Mexico, WhatsApp in African countries
    • Over the past decade, the number of African countries with data privacy laws has tripled. (eg Malabo Convention, African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection, etc) … implementation of data privacy regulations remains uneven.
    • regional approaches to data protection policies may encourage fruitful conversations about citizens’ data rights between civil society, technology corporations, and governments.
    • At present, most African citizens are extremely limited in their ability to govern their data for the benefit of their livelihoods. {Note: Not only Africans i suspect -CK}
    • nearly 80 percent of Kenya’s population are registered mobile money account holders, only 30 percent of households have access to banking.
    • ‘open finance’—an arrangement where banks and financial service providers would be required to share consumer data among themselves and with third-party providers. … new risks to privacy.
    • ==basically this chapter shows a bunch of short comings at the edge, and indicates that polycentric gov can help==