[GSDI Legal Econ] the politics of monitoring planetary life

[Kate Lance]

"Because data is increasingly central to making claims about the nature and implications of conditions in a sector, it is inherently a site of political contestation."
 
"All of these challenges and tensions underscore that monitoring is not inherently a good. Even with the best of initial intentions, monitoring systems can be used intrusively as a means of disciplining “the monitored” ...
 
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/latham/index.html
Knowledge and governance in the digital age: the politics of monitoring planetary life
by Robert Latham, First Monday 11(9) (September 2006)
Planetary phenomena, such as global climate change and transborder disease transmission, are increasing subject to monitoring aided by advances in surveillance and data processing technologies. The most powerful governments of the world, especially the United States, are building monitoring systems they can control. Communities and activists around the world face a fundamental choice: become involved in shaping those systems so they better serve the needs and interests of the world’s population or build their own independent, unofficial monitoring systems.


 
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