2 papers
cs.CY2026
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…
cs.CY2026
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…