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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    Ch14: Conclusion

    • three main contributions of the book:
      1. bringing polycentric perspectives
      2. underline power hierarchies
      3. promote policy diversity in the practice of digital data governance.
    • governance of digital data is not so horizontal and flat as some interpretations of polycentrism might suggest
    • does not mean that it lacks power hierarchies
    • This volume has repeatedly shone a spotlight on the ubiquity of power hierarchies through polycentric perspectives on the governance of digital data.
    • four avenues for future work, related respectively to multistakeholderism, sociological theory, temporality, and normative concerns.
    • probe the relationship between polycentrism and multistakeholder initiatives.
      • multistakeholderism involves a multiplicity of constituencies within a single regulatory institution.
      • how polycentrism and growing multistakeholderism might be mutually reinforcing trends.