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most citedData Stewardship Decoded: Mapping Its Diverse Manifestations and Emerging Relevance at a time of AI

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…