Global Digital Data Governance: Polycentric Perspectives

This book explores contemporary digital data governance, emphasizing the importance of cooperation across sectors and disciplines. It advocates for a polycentric approach, highlighting the complex power centers and connections in digital data governance. It brings together a wide range of case studies and offers insights and policy recommendations for how digital data governance occurs and how it might occur differently.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 30 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the intricate realm of contemporary digital data governance, emphasizing the critical need for collaboration across sectors and disciplines to navigate the rapidly evolving technological landscape. While much of the theoretical discourse surrounding global digital data governance remains scattered and narrowly focused on specific actors, norms, processes, or disciplinary approaches, this book advocates for a polycentric approach that enables readers to examine the issue from multiple perspectives and scales.

Polycentrism, as this book posits, offers a valuable framework that connects the diverse array of actors, issues, and processes involved in digital data governance at subnational, national, regional, and global levels. By adopting a polycentric perspective, readers gain a comprehensive understanding of the complex power dynamics and interconnectedness within digital data governance. This approach challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries and fosters the integration of a growing range of insights into the complexities of this domain.

To enrich the analysis, this book incorporates a diverse range of case studies, providing valuable insights and policy recommendations for how digital data governance unfolds and how it can be approached differently. Written by an international and interdisciplinary team, this book appeals to students and scholars in development studies, political science, international relations, global studies, science and technology studies, sociology, and media and communication studies.

In recognition of the importance of open access and dissemination of knowledge, the Open Access version of this book has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. This license allows for non-commercial use, reproduction, and distribution of the book, provided that the original authors and source are credited.

Weight: 396g
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032483108