Research Center for Digitalization of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC)
CEDIC is an Excellent Academic Environment at Oslo Metropolitan University. The center examines how digitalization influences the provision of welfare state services and modifies capabilities of different social groups and individuals to exercise social citizenship.
Why CEDIC?
Norway is one of the most digitized countries in the world. The population is increasingly connected through electronic platforms, and the transition from analogue to digital systems in the public administration, has a significant social impact. While new digital technologies can make public administration more cost-efficient and accessible, they can lead to a rise of new societal problems such as exclusion, marginalization and increased social differences.
The Research Centre for Digitalization of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC) aims to develop multi-disciplinary knowledge about the relationship between digitalization and the provision of welfare services, and the risks of exclusion from the opportunities to enjoy full and effective social citizenship. How do digitalization processes influence the provision of welfare state services? And how do they provide abilities and access for citizens at risk of social exclusion?
Research on digitalization of public services and social citizenship
Our objectives
- Examine policy measures aimed to ensure that digitalization of public welfare services foster the exercise of full and effective citizenship
- Investigate ethical, legal and human rights issues as they pertain to digitized public welfare service
- Trace innovation processes in public welfare services
- Explore how digitization affects the everyday life of vulnerable persons in welfare institutions
- Facilitate exploitation of findings and development of sustainable solutions to prevent or reduce risks of exclusion from citizenship
Meet our team
CEDIC consists of a trans-disciplinary team of experts in sociology, law, philosophy, psychology, information and communication technology, working together to develop ground-breaking knowledge at the interface between technological and social innovations.
Research groups
The team is organized in five groups: Digitzation and social policy, Digitization ethics and law, Digitization and innovation processes, and Digitization and everyday life in welfare institutions.
Publications
Our team conduct groundbreaking research in the intersection of digitization, public services and social citizenship. Read more about our publications and activities here.
Research projects
Our research projects spans from investigating the conditions social citizenship in EU countries, the development of artificial avatars, digital households, telepresence technologies and crossing and managing boundaries in digitized societies.
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