Informational Governance
Informational Governance for Sustainability focuses on governing by information and the role of information in governance.
At the crossroad of two major developments – the emerging Information Age and shifts in modes of governance – a new phenomenon has been identified and experimented upon recently: informational governance.
The concept of informational governance is new and refers to the idea that information (and informational processes, technologies, institutions and resources linked to it) is fundamentally restructuring processes, institutions and practices of governance, making them essentially different from conventional modes of governance. Where conventional governance highly relies on authoritative resources, belief in information control, and state power, in informational governance information is becoming a crucial (re)source with transformative powers for a variety of actors, although nobody is in control of information.
The programme aims to position Wageningen UR as a leading innovative centre in informational governance research.
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Four areas are investigated:
Governance across spatial scales
The practice of informational governance across scales
Contested information
Contested processes of information use and provision
Adaptive environmental governance
How information enhances the capacity of local communities to govern their common pool resources
Social media
Role and potential of new (uncontrolled) information systems in science and governance
Current Projects:
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Connect4Action
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ECOMPRIS - Comprehending the impact of environmental information in local governance processes
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Management of Change through the Internet?
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Smart consumer awareness of sustainability of food products
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Social media and social entrepeneurship
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Using participatory monitoring to build legitimacy an trust in watermanagement
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Virtual Quota Swaps - Internationaal uitwisselen van visquota
Current PhD projects:
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Social media as the new playing field for the governance of sustainable agro-food systems (Tim Stevens)
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Smart Energy Systems & Emerging Domestic Energy Practices
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Informational pesticide governance: Equivalence as a source of global contention
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Sustainable Arctic Resource Use
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The limits of governmental regulation in food information law
Completed projects:
Background documents
Presentations workshop 17-18 October 2013
- 2-day workshop Programme IG (2) (188,18 kb)
- IPOPIG-ArnoutFischer17-10-2013.pdf (1,39 mb)
- IPOPIG-EstherTurnhout17-10-2013.pdf (1,25 mb)
- IPOPIG-Herman Dorgelo17-10-2013.pdf (231,02 kb)
- IPOPIG-KatrienTermeer17-10-2013.pdf (573,63 kb)
- IPOPIG-PaulOpdam17-10-2013.pdf (2,44 mb)
- IPOPIG-ArtDewulf18-10-2013.pdf (1,37 mb)
- IPOPIG-LeGen18-10-2013.pdf (795,11 kb)
- IPOPIG-NoelleAarts18-10-2013.pdf (578,44 kb)
- IPOPIG-SietzeVellema18-10-2013.pdf (331,98 kb)
General documents
Lunch meetings
18 March 2014
18 February 2014
15 January 2014
September 2013
Factsheets Informational Governance
- Comprehending the impact of environmental information in local governance processes to increase quality of life: the case of ecosystem services (KB 16-001.06-002)
- Using participatory monitoring to build legitimacy and trust in watermanagement (KB 16-001.06-003)
- Strategies for improving communication between social and consumer scientists, food technology developers and consumers (KB 16-001.06-004)
- Management of Change through the Internet? (KB 16-001.06-007)
- The role of information and knowlegde in green urban initiatives (KB 16-003.02-002)
- Smart Consumer Awareness (KB 16-003.03-002)
- Social media and social entrepreneurship (KB 16.001.06-005)
- Social Media as the new playing field for the governance of sustainable food
- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes - Third party auditing and information at the nexus of global forestry standard and local forestry management
- Smart energy practices
- Governing Sustainable Management of Resources in the Russian Arctic
- Promoting sustainable consumer behaviour with sustainable food labelling