Mercy Makpor, Junior Research Associate at the United Nations University – Operating Unit on Policy-driven Electronic Governance (UNU‑EGOV), and Adegboyega Ojo, from Carleton University, have received the Best Poster Award at the 27th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research – dg.o 2026.
The poster follows their short paper titled “Big Tech Corporations and Data Extraction in Communities: A Critical Analysis”, which offers a critical examination of the role of large technology corporations in data extraction within communities.
The award recognises the quality and relevance of the research presented in poster format at the conference, which brings together scholars and practitioners in the field of digital government.
The dg.o 2026 conference was organised by the Digital Government Society under the theme "Collaborative Digital Transformation for Public Value Creation". The conference was hosted by the University of Nebraska at Omaha in Nebraska, United States of America.