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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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    Ch 4: The Challenges of Governance in a Datascape: Theorizing the Role of Non-extractive Methodologies in the 2030 Agenda

    • the 2030 Agenda, “datafication”, and citizens participation
    • data have for a long time been used to exert power and control over societies
    • stresses the importance of both seeing with data and of thinking of who is made visible in the datascape.
    • ‘how many resources are being diverted for producing data that are not for action?’
    • in the 2030 Agenda datascape, issues of interoperability rather than relationality tend to be prioritized.
    • The most important act, then, is understanding that what is missing was not accidentally forgotten, but purposefully hidden. aka ‘absent data’
    • ‘who is benefitting from these voids? What are the political and economic interests behind these?’.
    • poverty of data, in every sense, is rarely accidental.
    • ‘practices of authorized seeing’ {very striking term - CK}
    • Highlighting and filling out the blanks… in the fight for social justice … has been a flagship of citizen-generated data. (CGD)
    • includes examples of orgs engaged in CGD
    • We believe that the CGD movement is highly supported by two main ideas: the first being that data is the lingua franca for 21st-century public policy, that is, a common ground in which different actors can interact; the second being that it is possible for marginalized groups to take a chair at the negotiation table as long as they learn how to communicate in this language.
    • NSOs would say to CGD activists that ‘their data was not good enough’, something to which they would reply with ‘and yours are not useful enough’.