ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes how polycentric perspectives offer a nuanced interdisciplinary understanding of governing digital data. We review the insights gained across the chapters and sections of this book and finish with suggestions for further research on both digital data governance and polycentric perspectives on global cooperation more generally. This afterword foregrounds how polycentric perspectives are not a singular approach to steer analysis of, and prescriptions for, digital data governance. Rather, polycentric perspectives allow us to compare and scrutinize different explanations and normative expectations around the governance of digital data.
