Internet Interoperability and Polycentric Attributes in Global Digital Data Ordering
Year: 2024

This chapter develops a polycentric perspective on global data governance concerning the data that ‘flow’ across the Internet and its implications for interoperability. This exercise is undertaken to bring some legibility to the currently (seemingly) disconnected array of themes, actors, and levels using data flows to affect the Internet’s interoperability, consciously or unconsciously. The work examines the different centers of decision-making and practices concerning data against a polycentric