Platform Land was a project at digitalHKS examining how digital platforms will change government and society.
Aims of the project
- Give digital service units resources to help them build good platforms
- Test ways of explaining the value and implications of digital platforms to politicians and policymakers
- Identify the important parts of platform government and develop a common language for talking about it
- Start a conversation about the institutional, societal and democratic implications of digital platforms in government and beyond
Activities and outputs
- Interviewing technologists, policy makers and politicians from governments and the private sector
- Mapping the emergence of platforms around the world and publishing it as open data
- Writing a platforms playbook for government digital service units
- Publishing articles on the key issues related to government platforms
- Developing resources for students and practitioners looking to understand platform government
- Publishing a biweekly newsletter on government platforms to keep practitioners, researchers and policy makers informed