International
The government joins with other first-movers in shared international efforts to establish data governance rules and norms.
While the other five attributes deal with how a nation governs data domestically, this attribute attempts to gauge a country’s willingness and readiness to participate in international data governance efforts and to cooperate with other nations to do so. Elements of both binding rules and soft norms are considered, because the end goal for both is taken to be changing participants’ domestic regimes and thus result in an interoperable international arena. Only groups and agreements which are open to all nations to join, are considered.