果冻影院

Professor Ayona Datta (果冻影院 Geography) has been awarded a聽聽Advanced Grant worth approximately 鈧�2.5 million to carry out ground-breaking work on regional futures, focussing on the politics of digitalisation and urbanisation within the highly unequal contexts of emerging economies in the global south.

The project,聽Regional Futures: The territorial politics of digitalisation-as urbanisation in the global South, will focus on three rapidly growing metropolitan regions grappling with the challenges of transforming from 鈥榩aper-based bureaucracies鈥� into automated planning and governance systems.

The research will use ethnography, interviews, and information audit trails to bring new insights into postcolonial futures, smart cities, digital citizenships, and the expansion of metropolitan regions in the global south.

As Ayona explains:

鈥�鈥淭his project will have immense impact in our understanding of the politics and dynamics of regional urbanisation in the global south as both a product and a producer of the 鈥榠nformation revolution鈥�. Digitalisation produces new territories for regional urbanisation and this project will examine how state and non-state actors are assisting, contesting and disrupting these regional futures.鈥�

Commenting on the Advanced Grants, the ERC President, , explained:

鈥�鈥淭he great increase in demand led to a very fierce competition: only 8% of candidates were successful鈥�.

, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, nevertheless added:

鈥�鈥淚 am pleased to see more women applying for these prestigious grants - and winning them. For Europe to be competitive globally, we need to nurture all top talent that can push the frontiers of our knowledge.鈥�

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