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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Published in:Data & Policy 2022-01, Vol.4, Article e5
Main Authors: Sharp, Darren, Anwar, Misita, Goodwin, Sarah, Raven, Rob, Bartram, Lyn, Kamruzzaman, Liton
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizens
Co-design
Community
community engagement
Community involvement
Community participation
Data
Data collection
data governance
design for social innovation
Efficiency
Empowerment
Governance
Innovations
Mapping
multicriteria mapping
Multiple criterion
Net zero
net zero precincts
Political participation
Privacy
Prototypes
Smart cities
Social innovation
Surveillance
Sustainability
sustainability transitions
Urban planning
Urban studies
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2632-3249
2632-3249
DOI:10.1017/dap.2021.33