Global Digital Data Governance : Polycentric Perspectives

This book provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary digital data governance, highlighting the importance of cooperation across sectors and disciplines in order to adapt to a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Most of the theory around global digital data governance remains scattered and focused on specific actors, norms, processes, or disciplinary approaches. This book argues for a polycentric approach, allowing readers to consider the issue across multiple disciplines and scales.

Polycentrism, this book argues, provides a set of lenses that tie together the variety of actors, issues, and processes intertwined in digital data governance at subnational, national, regional, and global levels. Firstly, this approach uncovers the complex array of power centers and connections in digital data governance. Secondly, polycentric perspectives bridge disciplinary divides, challenging assumptions and drawing together a growing range of insights about the complexities of digital data governance. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, this book draws out key insights and policy recommendations for how digital data governance occurs and how it might occur differently.

Written by an international and interdisciplinary team, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of development studies, political science, international relations, global studies, science and technology studies, sociology, and media and communication studies.

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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).