Planning for a sustainable and inclusive urban environment must be addressed on a global scale. The most promising solution lies in development and use of smart city technologies. But smart city projects have been criticised for ignoring the diverse needs of the local population and increasing social divides. Data is a key area where tensions between different stakeholders play out and becomes a more pressing issue as more cities implement ‘smart’ technologies. The concept of ‘digital sovereignty’ encapsulates the idea of controlling the use of one’s own data and can be applied to scales from the state, city, organization to the individual, providing opportunities to integrate the individual with collective aspects of sovereignty in our digital world.
Two workshops
The network organised two workshops in 2021 and 2022 that brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers engaged in the emerging area of users’ digital sovereignty in the specific context of the smart city.
This network is supported by a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Research Initiation grant (F21-0029).
