Open Social Innovation (OSI) involves the collaboration of multiple stakeholders to generate ideas, and develop and scale solutions to make progress on societal challenges. In an OSI project, stakeholders share data and information, utilize it to better understand a problem, and combine data with digital technologies to create digitally-enabled solutions. Consequently, data governance is essential for orchestrating an OSI project to facilitate the coordination of innovation. Because OSI brings multiple stakeholders together, and each stakeholder participates voluntarily, data governance in OSI has a distributed nature. In this essay we put forward a framework consisting of three dimensions allowing an inquiry into the effectiveness of such distributed data governance: (1) openness (i.e., freely sharing data and information), (2) accountability (i.e., willingness to be held responsible and provide justifications for one's conduct) and (3) power (i.e., resourceful actors' ability to impact other stakeholder's actions). We apply this framework to reflect on the OSI project #WirVsVirus (“We versus virus” in English), to illustrate the challenges in organizing effective distributed data governance, and derive implications for research and practice.

开放式社会创新 (OSI) 涉及多个利益相关者的协作，以产生想法、开发和扩展解决方案，以在应对社会挑战方面取得进展。在 OSI 项目中，利益相关者共享数据和信息，利用它更好地理解问题，并将数据与数字技术相结合以创建数字化解决方案。因此，数据治理对于协调 OSI 项目以促进创新的协调至关重要。由于 OSI 将多个利益相关者聚集在一起，并且每个利益相关者自愿参与，因此 OSI 中的数据治理具有分布式性质。在这篇文章中，我们提出了一个由三个维度组成的框架，允许对这种分布式数据治理的有效性进行调查：（1）开放性（即自由共享数据和信息），（2）问责制（i。例如，愿意承担责任并为自己的行为提供正当理由）和 (3) 权力（即足智多谋的行为者影响其他利益相关者行为的能力）。我们应用此框架来反思 OSI 项目#WirVsVirus（英文“We versus virus”），以说明组织有效的分布式数据治理所面临的挑战，并得出对研究和实践的启示。