The Digital Cities Chair of the Urban School of Sciences Po, in partnership with the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, is organizing an international conference on July 10, 2023, on "Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?".
As an essential part of the daily lives of city dwellers and in the discourse on digital cities, the relationship between Google and local governance raises several issues that have surprisingly been relatively unexplored in the scientific literature. This conference, organized in three areas of reflection, aims to question the presence of Google in the territories and its effects on local policies and urban governance. Based on empirical investigations, the proposals may come from several social science disciplines (political science, sociology, geography, economics, urban planning, law, etc.) and may fall within the following three topics:
1. Alphabet's territorial implementation and strategy concerning cities and territories
2. Digitalizing and calculating the territory
3. Mobilization, contestation, regulation, collaboration: Google in local governance
The one-page proposals in French or English should be sent to Antoine Courmont (antoine.courmont@sciencespo.
Published: 03/21/2023