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URL:https://www.ukais.org/events/digital-public-infrastructures-and-the-st
 ate-recategorization-of-human-identity-categories/
SUMMARY:Digital Public Infrastructures and the State Recategorization of Hu
 man Identity Categories
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to invite you to an online seminar on March 11
 th\, at 12:00 UK time\, with Dr Katherine Wyers on 'Digital Public Infrast
 ructures and the State Recategorization of Human Identity Categories'.\nTh
 e seminar is provided by the UKAIS in collaboration with the AIS Women's N
 etwork College.\n\nThe event will take place via Microsoft Teams:\n\n\nMic
 rosoft Teams\nJoin the meeting now\nMeeting ID: 323 971 434 942 21\nPassc
 ode: LN3ub2Co\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: Digital identity data in the public 
 sector do more than merely organise populations. They actively shape socia
 l reality\, influencing how people are known\, governed\, and understood. 
 This lecture traces how seemingly minor changes to identity categories can
  produce wide-reaching effects as they ripple through the digital public i
 nfrastructures\, reshaping eligibility\, access\, and the delivery of heal
 th and welfare services. Drawing on infrastructure theory and an empirical
  case of state-driven gender recategorization\, it shows how human identit
 y categories become consequential through their entanglement with digital 
 systems. The lecture argues that modifying digital identity systems in res
 ponse to social and political change requires sustained attention to infra
 structural design. Without this\, there is a risk of reproducing harm thro
 ugh the very systems meant to support all citizens.\n\n\n\nBio: Dr. Kather
 ine Wyers is a researcher and practitioner in digital public infrastructur
 es. She combines software engineering experience from refugee health and e
 ducation projects with research on digital identity data and how governmen
 t classifications shape health and welfare programs. She earned her PhD in
  Informatics from the University of Oslo\, studying state-driven gender re
 categorization in digital identity systems through ethnographic research w
 ith transgender and gender-diverse people in North India. \n
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