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The chapter examines grassroots data activism that emerges with the global expansion of digital data and the growth of the Internet. It explores new opportunities and challenges that these practices from the margins entail for collaborative and sustainable data governance. It also provides insights into the plurality of existing frameworks, actors, and technologies around data sharing and governance. The publication is a chapter in the volume "Global Digital Data Governance" (eds. Aguerre et al., Routledge, 2024).
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The elements of grassroots data activism that matter for a fuller understanding of polycentric governance include the fragmented and partial nature of data sharing and collective interpreting. These practices involve creating new civic spaces and forming uncertain and shifting partnerships with the formal sector. Informal data activism practices reinterpret existing norms and institutions and insert alternative viewpoints and processes, expressed through local insights, narratives, and modes of sharing advanced through crowdsourcing and other digital techniques. Further investigation is needed into these rapidly growing expressions of local data agency for a fuller, pluriversal understanding of the emerging multiscalar global data governance.
Daivi Rodima-Taylor
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This page is a summary of: Grassroots Data Activism and Polycentric Governance, January 2024, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003388418-6.
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