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From Voice to Leverage in Data Governance. Building Enforceable Social License for Data ReUse
Stefaan G. Verhulst, Adam Zable, Begona Gonzalez Otero +1
Contemporary data governance has converged on participation. Citizens assemblies, deliberative polls, codesign workshops, and community advisory panels are now routinely suggested…
From Open Standards to Openly Governed: Standards-Setting Organizations as Stewards of Openness amid Platformization and Digital Sovereignty
Begoña G. Otero, Stefaan G. Verhulst
Open geospatial standards let data, services, and systems work across platforms. But openness is not just a property of specifications. It also depends on the institutions that pro…
Governing Well in the Algorithmic Age: The Foundations of Digital Statecraft
Zeynep Engin, Tim Gordon, Viviana Bastidas +14
The digital substrate - data, algorithms, infrastructure, platforms, applications - is being governed without adequate conceptual foundations. The ability and legitimacy required t…
Anticipatory Data Governance in the Age of AI: Emerging Signals in Data Access, Reuse, and Sovereignty
Adam Zable, Stefaan Verhulst
This paper reports findings from a structured participatory foresight study comprising two expert forecasting studios convened by The GovLab between 2025 and 2026. The studios brou…
The Rise of the Smart Compound: Privately Governed Urban Intelligence and Its Research Agenda
Stefaan Verhulst
Across a range of fast growing urban markets, private developers are constructing a version of the smart city that operates largely outside the purview of municipal government, oft…
The Case for Strategic Data Stewardship: Re-imagining Data Governance to Make Responsible Data Re-use Possible
Stefaan Verhulst
As societal challenges grow more complex, access to data for public interest use is paradoxically becoming more constrained. This emerging data winter is not simply a matter of sca…
Data Stewardship Decoded: Mapping Its Diverse Manifestations and Emerging Relevance at a time of AI
Stefaan Verhulst
Data stewardship has become a critical component of modern data governance, especially with the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI). Despite its increasing importance, the…
The Need for Climate Data Stewardship: 10 Tensions and Reflections regarding Climate Data Governance
Stefaan Verhulst
Datafication -- the increase in data generation and advancements in data analysis -- offers new possibilities for governing and tackling worldwide challenges such as climate change…