{"id":2816,"date":"2017-09-20T18:56:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2017-10-13T12:17:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T10:17:04","slug":"the-cities-and-digital-technology-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/the-cities-and-digital-technology-chair\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cCities and Digital Technology\u201d Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On 27 March 2017, Sciences Po\u2019s Urban School and the Center for European Studies established a new research and teaching chair called \u201cCities and Digital Technology\u201d. Devoted to the transformation of cities in relation to the digital revolution, this chair aims to develop teaching and research on these issues by associating businesses with Sciences Po\u2019s urban school.<\/p>\n

The \u201cCities and Digital Technology\u201d Chair is headed by Patrick Le Gal\u00e8s and Brigitte Fouilland, who are respectively the dean and executive director of the Urban School. Antoine Courmont, a recent Sciences Po PhD graduate in political science, is the chair\u2019s research manager.<\/p>\n

The partners<\/b><\/p>\n

Four sponsors have committed to a three-year partnership to support this chair: Cisco, La Poste, RTE, and La Caisse des D\u00e9p\u00f4ts. These partners seek to develop research on the effects of digital technology on urban governance to enrich their knowledge and reflection on the rapid and unclear transformations in which they are both actors and witnesses.<\/p>\n

New research fields<\/b><\/p>\n

\"BoulevardConnecte\u0301-VictoiresAP.The \u201cCities and Digital Technology\u201d Chair aims to create new research fields exploring the interaction between digital technology and territorial governance in a comparative perspective \u2013 specifically between Paris and Lyon \u2013 by developing two lines of inquiry:<\/p>\n

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The chair\u2019s first area of research tackles a crucial but often unexplored question: the relationships between the digital economy and the territories: how does digital technology affect cities? Conversely, how does the city affect digital technology? These two points lead to an analysis of the relationships between digital technology and cities to address fundamental issues like the evolution in urban form<\/b> in the digital city era, spatial and social inequalities <\/b>that digital technology can create, the relationships between urban and rural territories and the reconfiguration of territorial boundaries.
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\nIn parallel, the chair\u2019s second area of research analyzes urban data policies<\/b>. The idea is to explore how the increasing use of data affects urban policies and to identify change in the ways actors coordinate by means of data. Another goal is to understand how new actors have emerged in urban governance thanks to their capacity to gather, process and analyze data, and finally to examine strategies governing the flow of data and their impacts on organizations.<\/p>\n

Contribution to courses<\/b><\/p>\n

\"EcoleIn connection with this research program, the chair also aims to develop courses on digital technology topics within the various Urban School programs. Digital technology is one of the Urban School\u2019s priority areas of development for the coming years. Beginning in the next school year, courses on the digital city will be offered through the Territorial and Urban Strategies (STU) masters program and the urbanism cycle to shed light on the sociopolitical challenges of digital technology and its effects on public policies and territorial governance. Moreover, since its creation the Urban School has offered students collective projects on these issues. A growing number of students are pursuing internships and job opportunities in this sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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