[DATAGOV Core] your highlights for the advisory board

Thu Oct 1 16:09:54 CEST 2026

Thanks Giulia for this extensive list! I honestly cannot think of anything more to add to this Stefi. Especially with it being the summer break since our last advisory board update ;)

Best regards,
Sruthi

From: Core <core-bounces at lists.datagovlab.net> on behalf of Giulia Campaioli via Core <core at lists.datagovlab.net>
Date: Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 11:16
To: core at lists.datagovlab.net <core at lists.datagovlab.net>
Subject: Re: [DATAGOV Core] your highlights for the advisory board

Hi Stefi,

some updates for the advisory board since our last update (july 2026):

- The DATAGOV team started a bi-weekly, hybrid reading group where they are exploring the theoretical foundations of the projects, choosing literature that spans diverse disciplinary fields, in the direction of the working paper on theoretical framework of DATAGOV;
- The team has been working with the designer towards the migration to the new website, which will expand the current public interface of the project by adding publications, activities of the team, and research areas, on top of converging DATAGOV's visual identity
- Some team members are about to leave for fieldwork. Giulia will soon visit Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to speak in public facing events on the digitalization of health as well as meeting and interviewing key informants from diverse sectors in the field of health data infrastructures and public governance.
- The team published another blog post, written by Jonas and Carina, bringing insights from their recent participation to the EASST conference, in Krakow;
- The team is hiring two new members, a Student Assistant and a Lab Manager;
- The team has been participating to public events and conferences, expanding its network of expert informants, academic fellows and research collaborators. In early September, Stefania and Giulia were at Global Gathering 2026, the largest gathering of Digital Rights Activists, taking place in Estoril, Portugal. Here, Giulia and Stefania held a DATAGOV LAB Booth with an immersive exhibit called "Transfeminist digital care & Infrastructural inequalities". GG participants were invited to come inside the booth and explore these two concepts through a series of pictures, fanzines, drawings, and captions - bringing together Giulia's PhD work on TDC as a framework for infrastructural justice, and DATAGOV's first writing in progress, submitted for the CPDP book. GG participants were also invited to grab a copy of Stefania's and Giulia's INC publications.

If something else comes to mind I'll let you know!
best,
G

On 29/09/2026 14:32, Stefania Milan via Core wrote:
Hello team, i would like to send an update to our advisory boards, for which I need your highlights. please reply to this thread. see one of the earlier mails (too long though) for inspiration, below.
it would be great to receive your list by the end of the week! thanks
Stefania
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From: Stefania Milan <S.Milan at uva.nl<mailto:S.Milan at uva.nl>>
Date: Friday, 13 February 2026 at 00:19
To: advisory-board at lists.datagovlab.net<mailto:advisory-board at lists.datagovlab.net> <advisory-board at lists.datagovlab.net<mailto:advisory-board at lists.datagovlab.net>>
Subject: December-January hights + kick-off
Dear Advisory Board members
we hope this message finds you well.

We are writing to share an update on our recent activities and to extend an invitation to join our kick-off event, should you be around and able to attend.

What we have been up to—December-January DATAGOV highlights
The team has been busy reading, learning, and writing. In early January, Giulia (Postdoc), Mattéo (PhD) and Sruthi (PhD) led the project "Dissecting Digital ID(ea)s: Investigating the Infrastructures and Imaginaries of Digital Identity<https://www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2026DissectingDigitalIDeas>”<https://www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2026DissectingDigitalIDeas> at the Digital Methods Initiative Winter School at UvA, where participants generated comparative findings on digital identity schemes across five countries.

Our first co-authored paper, by Giulia, Mattéo and Shruti, with some input from Jonas (Postdoc) and Stefania, is currently under review at the CPDP (Computer, Privacy, and Data Protection) conference, to be held in May in Brussels. In addition, Stefania submitted an article, now under review, to Urban Geography as part of a special issue on "Crisis-driven Digitalization and its Afterlives in Urban Governance”. Another (co-authored) article, "<https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/open-data-meets-data-justice>Open data meets data justice"<https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/open-data-meets-data-justice>, has been published in Internet Policy Review.

In December, Stefania  traveled to Brazil, where, alongside academic engagements, she presented the DATAGOV project at the Ministry of Education, thanks to the invitation and support of our Advisory Board member Fernando Filgueiras. She also delivered the inaugural lecture of the Francqui Chair<https://www.uhasselt.be/nl/faculteiten/school-voor-sociale-wetenschappen/sw-nieuws/francqui-leerstoel-prof-dr-stefania-milan-universiteit-van-amsterdam-aan-de-school-voor-sociale-wetenschappen> she holds at Universiteit Hasselt (Belgium) for the current academic year; the Chair unfolds in five thematic “episodes" exploring the DATAGOV research programme. As we speak, our three PhD students are in Oslo (Norway), to present at the workshop "Understanding and reimagining the Digital Welfare State”.

On the event front
We would like to flag two exciting calls for abstracts:
EASST 2026, Krakow (8–11 September): we’re convening a panel titled "Infrastructures of governance: Power and assemblages in the data-driven state”<https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst2026/p/18161>, with Jonas as convener.
III International Congress of Feminist Anthropology, Tarragona (1–3 July). A side—but highly topical—gig for DATAGOV. Giulia and Sruthi are co-hosting the panel "<https://congressos.urv.cat/congres-antropologia-feminista-2026/simposi/454>Digital feminist anthropology’s role in the face of online anti-feminist backlash"<https://congressos.urv.cat/congres-antropologia-feminista-2026/simposi/454>. If either of these speaks to your work, we warmly encourage you (or your students) to consider submitting an abstract!

Finally, we have been very busy planning the kick-off event. Some of you are already involved as speakers (for those we are not—expect invitations in the coming years!). We are now extending the invitation to all of you who may be interested and able to be able to fund their own travel.

The kick-off event will take place on 26-27 March 2026.
Day 1 will be an invite-only event hosted by the UvA Institute for Advanced Studies (with limited seating). If you would like to join, please let us know ASAP so we can reserve your spot.
Day 2 will feature a public lunch event, hosted by the contemporary arts space Framer Framed. A preliminary programme for both days can be found at the bottom of this email.

Organization-wise
On the organization side, a skeleton website<https://datagovlab.net/> is now online (thanks to our amazing project manager, Meg!). We are working closely with a designer to craft our visual identity, with a redesigned, expanded website to follow. Five thought-provoking blog posts are about to go live in the coming weeks, so stay turned. We are also on LinkedI<https://www.linkedin.com/company/datagovlab/>n (thanks to Sruthi): please do take a minute to follow us!

Our artist-in-residence, Federico, is currently imagining and building a digital, self-run lab infrastructure to support our experimental and collaborative work—more on this soon. He is also reworking Le Grand Jeu<https://legrandjeu.net/>, a world-building board game he originally designed and developed for another EU project, adapting it as a device for data collection and awareness-raising.

We are proud of
Sruthi has been selected for the third cohort of the Women in GovTech challenge 2026<https://govstack.global/govstack-women-in-govtech-challenge-wigtc-2026/>, organised by GovStack, the World Bank and the DPI Safeguards Initiative. The mentorship and training programme aims to empower women to design and develop safe, inclusive, and citizen-centric digital government services.

Finally, Meg will be leaving us at the end of the month to start a PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt (am Main), supervised by Azadeh Akbari. While we will miss her dearly, we are incredibly excited for this next chapter and we look forward to collaborating in new ways in the future.

All for now, and with best regards,
Stefania on behalf of the DATAGOV team

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