[DATAGOV Core] [one last time] update to advisory boards

[Jonas Breuer]

Hi Steffi,
It reads great, we are a productive bunch.

Here the links for my publications
Article
https://tidsskrift.dk/privacy_studies_journal/article/view/161766
Book
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/data-protection-privacy-and-artificial-intelligence-volume-18-9781509993123/

Event report you have as pdf, I sent it to you the other day. Attached again here.

Best,
Jonas



From: Core <core-bounces at lists.datagovlab.net> on behalf of Stefania Milan via Core <core at lists.datagovlab.net>
Date: Thursday, 9 July 2026 at 11:02
To: core at lists.datagovlab.net <core at lists.datagovlab.net>
Subject: [DATAGOV Core] [one last time] update to advisory boards

Dear all
one last time on the updates for the advisory boards. You find the final draft below. I will embed the links when I format it (now in green; please add to this thread what is not there yet, also when it says "link"). I went for a shorter version, whereby teaching, for example, was left out, and also most of my writings.The idea is to focus ONLY on project-related deliverables--except when we have funky stuff like two books by Giulia and Jonas!--and the coolest, and a bit for everyone.

Note: we are not supposed to have started fieldwork yet, so I softened the point of your interviews, Giulia (I called them pilot)

I would love to send this off this evening at the latest. This means that no sign of life is consensus.

TO DO for the fall: find a nice service to format mailing lists. If anyone has ideas, welcome!
Thanks! st.



Dear Advisory Board,

Ahead of the summer break, here is a brief overview of DATAGOV's activities from March through June. Overall, the past months have brought strong progress across research, publications, dissemination, and community-building — a solid foundation for the project's next stage. In what follows, we share the highlights.
*Kick-off and research progress*
DATAGOV officially launched with a two-day Kick-Off Event in Amsterdam (26–27 March). Day one, an invite-only workshop at the UvA Institute for Advanced Study, brought together 25 scholars — including Mirca Madianou, Jo Pierson, Cecilia Passanti, Niels ten Oever, Louise Amoore, Fernando Filgueiras, and Bidisha Chaudhuri — to map the field and identify shared research directions. Day two opened to the public at ythe platform for contemporary art Framer Framed, with keynotes by Louise Amoore and Fernando Filgueiras following by two panel exciting discussions. You can read this (datagovlab.net/blog/post-6.html )and this (datagovlab.net/blog/post-7.html) blogpost, and the event report including pictures.
All three PhD candidates — Carina, Mattéo, and Sruthi — passed their pilot study evaluations and will continue beyond the probationary period. Their pilots covered state identification infrastructures in Brazil (Carina), biometric interoperability in EU security governance (Mattéo), and digital public infrastructure as governance rationality (Sruthi). Fieldwork preparations also advanced: Mattéo arranged interviews with Europol staff and secured field access to NATO innovation spaces; Giulia completed six pilot interviews on Brazil's E-SUS healthcare digitalization plan, informing her upcoming DATAGOV fieldwork there.
>From 19–21 June, the whole team headed to Zeeland, in Southern Netherlands, for a weekend of work and team building — including the first trial run of the new participatory game "CAMPO", designed by Federico — and, by all accounts, had a blast.
*Publications*
Several journal articles and book chapters have been submitted or are forthcoming, including Stefania's chapter "Standardizing Democracy: AI and the Transformation of Agonistic Politics" (in Fernando Filgueiras' forthcoming book Artificial Intelligence and Democracy), which argues that AI infrastructures push democracy — an inherently plural, conflictual process — toward standardization and accelerated, market-driven timelines, narrowing it into a more governable, filtered environment even as new forms of contestation emerge in response; Jonas' article (link) on infrastructural inversion (with Jo Pierson); and Giulia's papers on infrastructural inequalities, to appear in the CPDP book (see below). Three DATAGOV working papers are also in preparation for release in the fall, covering the project's theoretical framework, methods, and ethics.
Two books are emerging from the DATAGOV team this year — though not fully credited to the project: *Data Protection, Privacy and Artificial Intelligence: The World Is Watching* (Hart/Bloomsbury) (link), edited by Jonas; and *Transfeminist Digital Care* (Institute of Network Cultures) (link), by Giulia, published this July.
The team also kept up a steady stream of blog posts this spring (all at datagovlab.net/blog/):
- "No Opting Out? Reflections from the Digital Welfare State Workshop" — post-5.html
- "Reflections from the Statecraft, Sovereignty and Digital Government Symposium" (Sruthi) — post-8.html
- “DATAGOV Goes CPDP" — post-9.html
*Conferences and dissemination*
DATAGOV maintained a strong international presence: Computer, Privacy, and Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels (co-directed by Jonas; recap at post-9.html), the Goldsmiths symposium on Statecraft, Sovereignty and Digital Government (Sruthi, April; see), the III International Congress of Feminist Anthropology (Giulia), and the Surveillance Studies Network conference in Lille (Mattéo). Upcoming: LAVITS (Carina) and EASST 2026, where DATAGOV will run a panel, "Infrastructures of Governance", chaired by Jonas and co-chaired by Carina.
Stefania also concluded her Francqui Chair lecture series at Hasselt University, five public lectures delivered across the 2025–26 academic year on data infrastructures, democracy, and the state, closing in May with "Inequality by Design? Exclusion and Invisibility in the Data-Driven State" (link).
Other dissemination: Sruthi on the radio programme "Feminist Futures – Data & Power" (link); Giulia's CPDP talk on Avatar.FM and on YouTube (https://youtu.be/mdS3ckh7oag?si=NF4PqlPyFaMv6vtx); and ongoing updates via the DATAGOV LinkedIn page.
*Methodological innovation and infrastructure*
Federico developed and trialed a new co-design game, "CAMPO," at the retreat, with a second, hybrid-format variant now in progress. Giulia met with Ray, DATAGOV's partner designer, to plan the permanent website, on track for a post-summer launch.
Since March, the team has also migrated the project's entire digital infrastructure from Microsoft to NextCloud, an open-source environment provided by SURF.nl, the IT cooperative of Dutch education and research. Stefania has joined a small advisory group supporting the UvA’s Executive Board on the future of the NextCloud pilot and technology sovereignty.
*Team news*
We will shortly be hiring a student assistant and a postdoc based in South Africa to lead the country/regional case study. Good candidates in mind? Please reach out.

Best regards,
Stefania on behalf of the DATAGOV team (datagovlab.net)

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