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This module guides learners through a series of steps that help them understand the ways data, datasets, and other collections of information are entrenched within social contexts. These contexts often have a systematic character, meaning that data producers, stewards, and users create and participate in structured systems of rules and social norms–known as governance–that guide how data is used appropriately.

Participatory governance of data by members of a community is called a “knowledge commons,” an approach that focuses first on the production and collection of data, including the people responsible and their motivations; second, on the threats and opportunities associated with storing, analyzing, and using the data; and third, on the rules and standards that specify who may interact with the data and how. Using this approach helps those who produce, steward, and use data understand how to design better governance for more effective data use.

Our approach introduces learners to seeing the principal elements of that character by using techniques derived from research in knowledge commons, which studies systems governing shared knowledge and information resources.

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