[Air-L] invite: Governance by Data Infrastructure at the University of Amsterdam (27 March)

[Stefania Milan]

The DATAGOV Lab (https://datagovlab.net) at the University of Amsterdam 
is happy to invite you to the launch even of the project "Governance by 
Data Infrastructure in the Post-Pandemic Democracy", funded by the 
European Research Council.

Data infrastructures like digital identity systems and biometric 
technologies increasingly decide who is seen, sorted, and served — yet 
they remain largely out of public view. The DATAGOV kick-off invites you 
to pull these systems into the open and join a cross-sector conversation 
on how data-driven regulation is reshaping democracy, rights, and 
inequality worldwide.

🗓️ Date: March 27, 2026
🕦 Time: 9:30 - 15:30 (+drinks), tentative program available below
📍Location: Framer Framed (Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71 1093 KS, Amsterdam)
📃 Sign up link [0]

DATAGOV investigates the impact and social costs of regulatory data 
infrastructures: data-grabbing systems that actively shape the polity, 
from monitoring and automated decision-making to mediating access to 
public services, rights, and welfare. The project, funded by the 
European Research Council (ERC), takes a comparative approach 
investigating the European Union, Brazil, India, and South Africa, to 
examine how these infrastructures transform governance and what they 
mean for the future of democracy in an era of pervasive datafication. To 
start with, our empirical focus is on four technology families: 
biometrics, digital identity, and health and education technologies, and 
how these reconfigure citizenship, sovereignty, and inequality. The 
kick-off will feature keynote presentations, conversations, and a 
borrel, bringing together a diverse group of participants from academia, 
policymaking, industry, civil society, and the arts.

The event will also leave ample time for conversation, (net)working, and 
enjoying each other’s company. While the program is still taking shape, 
we already have an exciting list of speakers who will be joining us from 
around the world: Louise Amoore (Durham University), Fernando Filgueiras 
(Brazilian Ministry of Education), Mirca Madianou (Goldsmiths, 
University of London), Rocco Bellanova (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), 
Cecilia Passanti (Université Paris Cité), Rob van Kranenburg (IEEE 
Standards Association), and colleagues from the UvA.

This event is open to everyone free of charge.

If you would like to keep up to date with our work and activities, 
please consider signing up to our mailing list. [1]

You can also keep up to date with our activities on our website [2] and 
LinkedIn[3].

Sign up fast: seating is limited!

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[2] https://datagovlab.net
[3] https://www.linkedin.com/company/datagovlab/