Digital Sovereignty and the Normativity of Data Governance

The “Global Governance for the Digital Ecosystems” Report was released at the Paris Peace Forum on November 11, 2022, and presented by the project’s co-leads — the Forum’s President, Pascal Lamy (former Director General of the WTO and Board Member at CERRE), and Bruno Liebhaberg (CERRE’s Director General) — to Emmanuel Macron, the President of France (see photo below).

Dr Marcelo Thompson co-authored the Report’s recommendations on Data Governance and authored the paper on Digital Sovereignty — titled: “Digital Sovereignty and the Normativity of Data Governance”.

In the paper, Marcelo identifies the various ways in which extra-legal (political, moral, cultural) considerations pervade data governance debates and challenge the prospects of harmonisation initiatives. The report points nevertheless to the inevitable and often legitimate role played by such considerations and makes concrete recommendations for navigating these.

The whole report can be accessed at: https://cerre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GGDE_FulIReport.pdf

Photo credit: CERRE’s LinkedIn page