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| Stakeholders | Symbols | Descriptions |
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| Platforms | | Baseline returns in the case of negative governance |
| Baseline costs in negative governance |
| The technical, management, operational, and maintenance costs invested in active governance |
| The hidden benefits, such as corporate reputation and business security generated by active governance |
| Direct or indirect losses to the platforms caused by data security issues |
| Fines paid by platforms to local governments after data security issues |
| Probability of data security issues |
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| Local governments | | The human, financial, and material costs of participating in DSG |
| Subsidies provided by the central government for local governments to participate in governance in response to national policies |
| Local fines paid to the central government after a data security issue |
| The benefit to local credibility of platforms actively maintaining data security |
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| Central government | | The additional technical and human cost of adopting the “emergency response” strategy over the “non-emergency response” |
| The loss recovered for platforms in emergency response to data security crisis |
| The loss recovered for the locality in emergency response to data security crisis |
| The loss recovered for the community at large in the emergency response to the data security crisis |
| Negative environmental externality losses caused by “non-emergency response” |
| The overall benefit of active governance of the platforms to society |
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