A participatory approach for empowering community engagement in data governance: The Monash Net Zero Precinct
Data governance is an emerging field of study concerned with how a range of actors can successfully manage data assets according to rules of engagement, decision rights, and accountabilities. Urban studies scholarship has continued to demonstrate and criticize lack of community engagement in smart c...
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| description | Data governance is an emerging field of study concerned with how a range of actors can successfully manage data assets according to rules of engagement, decision rights, and accountabilities. Urban studies scholarship has continued to demonstrate and criticize lack of community engagement in smart city development and urban data governance projects, including in local sustainability initiatives. However, few move beyond critique to unpack in more detail what community engagement should look like. To overcome this gap, we develop and test a participatory methodology to identify approaches to empowering community engagement in data governance in the context of the Monash Net Zero Precinct in Melbourne, Australia. Our approach uses design for social innovation to enable a small group of “precinct citizens” to co-design prototypes and multicriteria mapping as a participatory appraisal method to open up and reveal a diversity of perspectives and uncertainties on data governance approaches. The findings reveal the importance of creating deliberative spaces for pluralising community engagement in data governance that consider the diverse values and interests of precinct citizens. This research points toward new ways to conceptualize and design enabling processes of community engagement in data governance and reflects on implementation strategies attuned to the politics of participation to support the embedding of these innovations within specific socio-institutional contexts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-807595bd62e44806af940255726af6992023-03-09T12:31:38ZengCambridge University PressData & Policy2632-32492022-01-01410.1017/dap.2021.33A participatory approach for empowering community engagement in data governance: The Monash Net Zero PrecinctDarren Sharp0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3778-9503Misita Anwar1Sarah Goodwin2Rob Raven3Lyn Bartram4Liton Kamruzzaman5Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, AustraliaFaculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, AustraliaFaculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, AustraliaMonash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, AustraliaSchool of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, CanadaMonash Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Caulfield East, Victoria, AustraliaData governance is an emerging field of study concerned with how a range of actors can successfully manage data assets according to rules of engagement, decision rights, and accountabilities. Urban studies scholarship has continued to demonstrate and criticize lack of community engagement in smart city development and urban data governance projects, including in local sustainability initiatives. However, few move beyond critique to unpack in more detail what community engagement should look like. To overcome this gap, we develop and test a participatory methodology to identify approaches to empowering community engagement in data governance in the context of the Monash Net Zero Precinct in Melbourne, Australia. Our approach uses design for social innovation to enable a small group of “precinct citizens” to co-design prototypes and multicriteria mapping as a participatory appraisal method to open up and reveal a diversity of perspectives and uncertainties on data governance approaches. The findings reveal the importance of creating deliberative spaces for pluralising community engagement in data governance that consider the diverse values and interests of precinct citizens. This research points toward new ways to conceptualize and design enabling processes of community engagement in data governance and reflects on implementation strategies attuned to the politics of participation to support the embedding of these innovations within specific socio-institutional contexts.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S263232492100033X/type/journal_articlecommunity engagementdata governancedesign for social innovationmulticriteria mappingnet zero precinctssustainability transitions |
| spellingShingle | Darren Sharp Misita Anwar Sarah Goodwin Rob Raven Lyn Bartram Liton Kamruzzaman A participatory approach for empowering community engagement in data governance: The Monash Net Zero Precinct Data & Policy community engagement data governance design for social innovation multicriteria mapping net zero precincts sustainability transitions |
| title | A participatory approach for empowering community engagement in data governance: The Monash Net Zero Precinct |
| title_full | A participatory approach for empowering community engagement in data governance: The Monash Net Zero Precinct |
| title_fullStr | A participatory approach for empowering community engagement in data governance: The Monash Net Zero Precinct |
| title_full_unstemmed | A participatory approach for empowering community engagement in data governance: The Monash Net Zero Precinct |
| title_short | A participatory approach for empowering community engagement in data governance: The Monash Net Zero Precinct |
| title_sort | participatory approach for empowering community engagement in data governance the monash net zero precinct |
| topic | community engagement data governance design for social innovation multicriteria mapping net zero precincts sustainability transitions |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S263232492100033X/type/journal_article |
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