Transnational Collaboration at the Digital Fontier: Knowledge travel across borders in the public sector digitalisation

The project starts from the premise that public digitalization is increasingly driven by transnational collaboration and asks how best practices of digital government travel across national contexts, and what kinds of politically and culturally transformative effects this may have on national welfare states? The circulating best practices of digital government have an unacknowledged political character, as the process of public digitalisation does not just streamline the welfare state but also fundamentally transforms the internal workings of the state as well as its relations to its citizens, the private sector, and other countries. An STS-informed study, the project theorises public digitalization as a transnational network of artefacts, expertise, and events and ethnographically follows three countries (Denmark, Israel, Japan and the UK) deeply engaged in knowledge sharing.