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Digital citizenship in a legal perspective

Today, Denmark is one of the most digitalised countries in the world, and there is a strong political focus on maintaining this position. In May 2022, the Danish government launched a digitalisation strategy with the aim of increasing digital security, supporting the digital skills of the public and businesses, creating better welfare, accelerating the green transition and increasing growth and exports. The strategy assumes that digitalisation - as stated in the vision that deals with ethical perspectives - will be supported in the coming years by legislation that ensures "an efficient and user-friendly digital administration, an up-to-date framework for the use of new technology, and that digital solutions are developed based on citizens' legal security" (Denmark's digitalisation strategy - Together for digital development, 2022, p. 46). In dialogue with both researchers and practitioners, the project aims to investigate how we as a society can make digitalisation, legal rights and digital citizenship interact rather than collide.

Per Andersen

Professor with Special Responsibilities Department of Law