The DATAGOV kick-off workshop on 26 March convenes a smal group of participants for a focused day of collective idea generation around governance by data infrastructures in and beyond the EU. Combining structured sessions with live visual facilitation, the workshop creates a shared thinking space to map key tensions in contemporary societal governance, identify gaps in current debates, and surface under-examined actors, norms, and the data infrastructures shaping the field.
Through small-group exchanges, rotating thematic discussions, and plenary synthesis, participants will move from diagnosing challenges to outlining possible directions for the DATAGOV project. Central to the workshop is the recognition of citizen-generated experiential data as a legitimate and authoritative form of knowledge—on par with institutional and technical expertise—and its critical role in informing more inclusive and democratic approaches to governance by data infrastructure.
| 10:30 | Arrival & coffee |
| 11:00 | Welcome & framing of the event |
| 11:30 | Session 1 — Mapping the terrain |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Session 2 — From tensions to directions |
| 15:00 | Collective synthesis |
| 15:30 | Closing |
| 16:00 | End |
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)
Bidisha Chaudhuri (University of Amsterdam)
Niels ten Oever (University of Amsterdam)
Jo Pierson (Hasselt University and VUB)
Marjolein Lanzing (University of Amsterdam)
The DATAGOV Lab is a research group hosted by the Department of Media Studies (UvA) and funded by the European Research Council (grant no. 101142006). It is led by Prof. Dr. Stefania Milan.