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Principles for sustainable digitalization
Published in Steffen Lange, Tilman Santarius, Smart Green World?, 2020
Steffen Lange, Tilman Santarius
In order to ensure compatibility with privacy protection, freedom of expression and consumer sovereignty, and to minimize existing power asymmetries between data-gathering organizations and individuals, digitalization must be aligned to the guiding principle of Strict Data Protection. Here, too, we define three concepts for more equitable and sustainable digitalization: data sufficiency, privacy by design and the safeguarding of users’ data sovereignty.
Digital earth: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Published in International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023
Alessandro Annoni, Stefano Nativi, Arzu Çöltekin, Cheryl Desha, Eugene Eremchenko, Caroline M. Gevaert, Gregory Giuliani, Min Chen, Luis Perez-Mora, Joseph Strobl, Stephanie Tumampos
For these reasons, there is a need to envision and promote innovative collaborative governance styles that ensure: public value, data sovereignty, and inclusivity (Mulder et al. 2016; Taylor 2017; Micheli et al. 2020; Micheli et al. 2022). Public value implies ensuring that the value of data is not limited to governments and companies but rather redistributed among various stakeholders in society (i.e. public value). Data sovereignty implies providing individuals and organizations the ability to exert authority over their data. Finally, inclusivity implies ensuring the inclusion of marginalized or less powerful actors so that they can also share the benefits derived from (their) data. The value of such collaborative governance styles is particularly emphasized during emergencies and natural disasters (Mulder et al. 2016). Take for example cases where citizens have contributed local knowledge of business opening hours, take-away options, and other COVID-19 response measures to the Open Street Map open geospatial platform (Minghini, Sarretta, and Napolitano 2022) or the use of mobile device data to track the spread of COVID-19 and citizen mobility during the pandemic (Vespe et al. 2021; Simpson 2021).
Spatial data trusts: an emerging governance framework for sharing spatial data
Published in International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023
Nenad Radosevic, Matt Duckham, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Serene Ho, Katherine Williams, Tanzima Hashem, Yaguang Tao
Where as data privacy is connected with the right to control personal data by individuals, data sovereignty concerns the control of data by nations. The data sovereignty of nation states is today regarded as critical to national security interests, with spatial data a key component of that interest. Spatial data is acknowledged by the Australian Government, for example, as essential to national security in connection with managing risks from pandemics, wildfires, floods, and extreme weather (Australian Government, The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet 2022).