Transnational Collaboration at the Digital Frontier
The Transnational Collaboration at the Digital Frontier (Digi-Front) starts from the premise that public sector digitalization is increasingly driven by transnational collaboration. We ask how best practices of digital government travel across national contexts, and what kind of politically and culturally transformative effects this may have on national welfare states.
The circulating best practices of digital government have an unacknowledged political character: the process of public digitalization does not just streamline the welfare state but also fundamentally transforms the internal working of the state, as well as the relations to its citizens, the private sector, and other countries.
An STS-informed study, the project theorises public digitalization as a transnational network of artefacts, expertise, and events — and ethnographically follows three countries deeply engaged in knowledge sharing.
A collaborative data sprint bringing together researchers and practitioners to map and analyse the historical trajectory of Danish public sector digitalization.
16–17 April · Goldsmiths, University of London
Bringing together scholars within STS, software and platform studies, media studies, international relations, political theory, and cultural studies to encourage conversation and collaboration through curated panels.
29–30 June · Aalborg University, Copenhagen
Digi-Front has a panel at the Danish STS conference exploring how infrastructures are made, maintained, imagined, and transformed across social, ecological, and technological domains.
Associate professor in the Technologies in Practice research group at ITU. Studies public sector digitalization in Denmark and abroad ethnographically. As PI, responsible for thinking across and considering synergies between the subprojects.
Associate professor in the Technologies in Practice research group at ITU and senior lecturer in the School of Cybernetics at ANU. Works primarily on the UK case study with a focus on how expertise shifts across national contexts.
Assistant professor of digital strategic communication at the department of Media Studies and Journalism. Involved in the digital methods components and ethnographic studies.
Anders Kristian Munk is professor of computational anthropology at the Section for Human-Centered Innovation, DTU Management. He is responsible for the digital methods components of the project and will work closely with Lasse Uhrskov Kristensen and Alexei Tsinovoi to map processes of transnational digitalization on platforms like GitHub, Hugging Face or LinkedIn.
Primarily involved with the Artefacts work package. Maps code-sharing practices between government entities on GitHub, Hugging Face, and LinkedIn.
Studies how public digitalization expertise is ascribed value in the everyday practice of digitalization professionals, and how knowledge travels across borders and between sectors.