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The smart city currently appears as an object of dreams and desires in the minds of politicians, technologists and to some extent the greater public. This sub-project seeks to understand how the smart city, and the infrastructure development surrounding and constituting it, reconfigure relations between public and private actors. Data plays a central role in this imaginary, a source of potential for innovation by private actors or for improved efficiency of public services. This is evident in projects such as…

The Danish public sector has become more and more reliant upon digital technologies for the last decades. Danish citizens are increasingly expected to be able to serve themselves through digital platforms, taking care of requests, casework and administrative forms of labor previously handled by welfare state professionals. As both datafication and digitalization intensifies, new forms of ‘data’ or ‘digital’ citizenship also start to emerge, reconfiguring and recreating the very relation between the state and its citizens. This subproject investigates these…