Continents
Regions
Countries plus the EU
Background and Project Rationale
Tim Berners-Lee, the architect of the World Wide Web, taught us that the Internet is a function of the choices we make about data. He argued that policies to govern the data that underpin the internet must be coherent, interoperable, accountable, and built on trust. Although data is the most collected, analyzed, shared, and traded good or service around the world, we know little about how various types of data are governed at the national and international level. In this project, with help from a small team of researchers, we will map and assess laws and regulations focused on the governance of data. By so doing, we can gain a better understanding of innovative approaches to data governance and what comprehensive data governance looks like.