Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India

Iyer, Deepa Kylasam; Kuriakose, Francis

doi:10.1080/13621025.2022.2077569

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“…In reaction to diverse pressures (simplistically definable in terms such as neoliberalism, globalisation, digital platformisation, social inequality, economic rescaling, migration flows, spatial segregation and invasive tech corporate control), urban citizenship is emerging to better reflect the hybridisation of identity, participation and entitlement to focus on the concrete capacity to act politically both in material and immaterial realms. Urban citizenship could reflect the political capacity and right to 'use' the city and its embedded digital platforms in the presence of different regimes of citizenship (Iyer and Kuriakose, 2023). This is a form of biopolitical governance (Collier, 2011), since if digital platforms seek to shape the behaviour and norms of citizens in the context of platform urbanisation, this process can involve promoting specific forms of participation or citizenship that counteract government objectives.…”

Section: Techno-politics and Hybrid Norms Of Urban Citizenshipmentioning

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Platform urbanisation, infrastructures and techno-politics: The turn towards urban citizenship

Bignami,

Hanakata

2024

Journal of European Studies

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This article analyses how digital platforms challenge and redefine the way in which urban forms of citizenship are shaped. What we call ‘platform urbanisation’ accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic when digital platforms penetrated with increasing rapidity into every aspect of urban life. While these digital platforms have facilitated new possibilities for engagement, access to services, efficiency in processing data, and customising responses to people online and offline, they also pose political challenges related to inequality, privacy, exclusion and social polarisation. Developing a techno-political urban environment built upon inclusion, equality, and respect for the rights of users, necessitates leveraging the potential of digital platforms to empower citizens and acknowledging and incorporating the political nature of this new urban environment. Furthermore, the intersection between the political influence of platforms on the governance of citizens and everyday life has a biopolitical dimension, since the power of platforms is exercised through policies and practices that affect individuals and collectivities. The article clarifies two essential facets of platform urbanisation: (1) the political nature of such a process, which requires a reframing of citizenship and (2) the role of both material and immaterial infrastructures in this process, which serve thus to constitute it as a new biopolitical territory. This conceptual expansion allows us to interpret digital platforms as an inextricable merging of political rationality, administrative techniques and technology.

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Section: Techno-politics and Hybrid Norms Of Urban Citizenshipmentioning

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Platform urbanisation, infrastructures and techno-politics: The turn towards urban citizenship

Bignami,

Hanakata

2024

Journal of European Studies

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“…In India, 100 cities have been selected for rapid and comprehensive digitization as part of the smart city framework (Kylasam Iyer & Kuriakose, 2023). Bengaluru, in the southern state of Karnataka, is one of the foremost among them.…”

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Digital Platforms as (Dis)Enablers of Urban Co-Production: Evidence From Bengaluru, India

Kylasam Iyer,

Kuriakose

2024

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This article examines how digital platforms focused on citizen engagement affect urban transformation based on multiple case studies from Bengaluru, India. The research question is: What type of initiatives and designs of digital citizen platforms enable co-production? Co-production is defined as the use of assets and resources between the public sector and citizens to produce better outcomes and improve the efficiency of urban services. The study uses qualitative and quantitative approaches. Evaluative metrics of citizen engagement in digital platforms are done at two levels: platform metrics and initiative metrics. Each platform is evaluated under several variables that indicate the type of ownership, period of operation, aims and types of initiatives, and impact and levels of engagement. Then, the digital platforms are mapped for the extent of digital co-production that matches the type of digital interaction with a form of citizen–government relationship. The findings indicate that the orientation of digital co-production, where it exists, seems to be around the dimensions of co-testing and co-evaluation rather than co-design and co-financing. Furthermore, the digital platforms under study primarily view citizens as users rather than collaborators, limiting the scope of digital co-production. The involvement of urban local governments and private partners in a single platform strengthens the degree of citizen engagement, including the scope for co-production. Finally, there is a strong offline counterpart to citizen engagement through digital platforms where true co-production exists.

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“…Acknowledging the particularities of the Global South in relation to the Global North is necessary to solve a great number of problems [28]. Shockingly, COVID-19 made all world citizens pandemic citizens, sharing the same fear, uncertainty, and risks regardless of their location in the world [29][30][31]. However, it was unlikely that the pandemic crisis and its algorithmic disruptive vulnerabilities equally affected citizens in the Global South and the Global North.…”

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Smart Rural Communities: Action Research in Colombia and Mozambique

Calzada

2023

Sustainability

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This article contributes to the ongoing discussion on rural development programs aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Global South. The research question examines how the Smart Rural Communities (SRC) framework can support the SDGs as an international cooperation model. The article presents findings from fieldwork action research including a critical analysis of the hegemonic discourse on smart cities and provides final recommendations. Additionally, it introduces the concept of SRC. The fieldwork action research was conducted in post-conflict rural areas in Colombia’s Bolivar region and remote settlements in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. Led by Ayuda En Acción in collaboration with co-operatives such as Mundukide Foundation, Alecop, and LKS from Mondragon Co-operative Corporation, these interventions aimed to engage local communities through Living Labs. They utilized Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and social innovation to promote the well-being of rural residents. The article comprises (i) an introduction; (ii) a literature review; (iii) a presentation of the fieldwork action research in Colombia and Mozambique; (iv) findings from a SWOT analysis and policy recommendations for SRC Living Labs; (v) conclusions addressing the research question. The SRC framework offers valuable insights for international cooperation models striving to achieve the SDGs in the Global South.

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Becoming digital citizens: covid-19 and urban citizenship regimes in India

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Platform urbanisation, infrastructures and techno-politics: The turn towards urban citizenship

Platform urbanisation, infrastructures and techno-politics: The turn towards urban citizenship

Digital Platforms as (Dis)Enablers of Urban Co-Production: Evidence From Bengaluru, India

Smart Rural Communities: Action Research in Colombia and Mozambique

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