DATA GOVERNANCE
Browse recent publications by Hub staff members and affiliates.
Data is disruptive: How data sovereignty is challenging data governance
The vision of data control, or restricting cross-border data flows, as a means of protecting personal data is disruptive and inaccurate. Whether held by the public or private sector, societies benefit the most when large inventories of data are used, shared, and...
Transatlantic Priorities: Data Governance
On January 6, 2021, with the siege of the US Capitol, the world saw the direct and indirect effects of a man and a party willing to move fast and break democracy and global political stability. While we may be slow learners, this lesson will likely push America and...
Data Is Divisive: A History of Public Communications on E-commerce, 1998–2020
For 22 years, the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been discussing how to govern e-commerce and the data that underpins it. In 2019, some 74 (now 86) nations began to negotiate e-commerce. These talks are conducted in secret and little is known about...