Welcome to Digi Front

The Transnational Collaboration at the Digital Frontier (in short: Digi Front) is a research project that starts from the premise that public sector digitalization is increasingly driven by transnational collaboration and asks how best practices of digital government travel across national contexts, and east kind 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 digitalization does not just streamline the welfare state but also fundamentally transforms the internal working of the state as well as the 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, and the UK) deeply engaged in knowledge sharing.