Tove Sofia Engvall

Tilknyttet UiA

Faculty of Social Sciences

Email: tove.engvall@uia.no
Phone: +47 38142026

Research groups

CeDiT: Centre for digital transformation

Research

Currently doing a PhD project about the role of information systems in global governance, using the case of reporting to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change. All countries have to report on their commitments, achievements and emission levels to the UN.
The idea is that this will enable transparency, assessment of individual and collective action, inspire political engagement and participation. In this way, both the information and IT system have central roles in governance. The research will explore the relationship between information, technology and governance, to develop a deeper understanding of the role of information systems in a complex context of global governance.

Selected publications

Engvall, T., & Flak, L. S. (2022). Digital governance as a scientific concept. In Y. Charalabidis, L. S. Flak, & G. Viale Pereira (Eds.), Scientific Foundations of Digital Governance and Transformation

Engvall, T. (2021). Exploring the Impact of Digital Global Governance through Affordance Theory: the Case of Climate Reporting.

Tuition

Foundations of Sustainable Development (SV-156)

Short biography

Tove has been an adjunct lecturer in Archives and information science at Mid Sweden University, and has participated in some research projects, for example https://interparestrust.org/
Previous to that, she was an e-archivist in a Swedish municipality, and participated in national projects about e-archives.

Engvall, Tove Sofia; Flak, Leif Skiftenes & Sæbø, Øystein (2023). The role of digital technologies in global climate negotiations. Government Information Quarterly: an international journal of information technology management, policies, and practices. ISSN 0740-624X. 40(4). doi: 10.1016/j.giq.2023.101867. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Digital technologies are increasingly used in global climate negotiations to enhance interaction and participation. However, global climate negotiations are characterized by paradoxes and tensions that complicate the resolution of the problem. Thus, the use of digital technologies can only be effective if orchestrated with an understanding of underlying global climate negotiations paradoxes. The objective of this paper is to identify research needs related to the intersection of global climate negotiations, paradoxes, and the use of digital technologies. We propose a research agenda based on paradoxes of global climate negotiations at different levels of online interaction. Two streams of research inform our research agenda: paradox theory and research on online communities. We illustrate our reasoning by discussing digital support for the United Nation's Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings for climate negotiations. The research agenda contributes to the digital governance field by sensitizing the community of the underlying paradoxes in global governance. The combination of online communities research and paradox theory offer novel guidance on complexity and potential challenges when applying digital technologies in global climate negotiations. Our research agenda can be used to develop appropriate response strategies as it highlights challenges in need of attention.
Engvall, Tove Sofia & Flak, Leif Skiftenes (2022). The state of information infrastructure for global climate governance. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy. ISSN 1750-6166. doi: 10.1108/TG-05-2022-0064. Full text in Research Archive

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Engvall, Tove Sofia & Flak, Leif Skiftenes (2022). Digital Governance as a Scientific Concept. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-92944-2. 435 p. Full text in Research Archive

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Engvall, Tove Sofia; Flak, Leif Skiftenes & Saebo, Oystein (2022). Sharing, Cooperation or Collective Action? A Research Agenda for Online Interaction in Digital Global Governance. EGOV-CeDEM-ePart. ISSN 2524-1400. Full text in Research Archive
Engvall, Tove Sofia & Flak, Leif Skiftenes (2022). Affordances of e-reporting on a supranational level: the case of Reportnet. EGOV-CeDEM-ePart. ISSN 2524-1400. Full text in Research Archive
Engvall, Tove Sofia; Flak, Leif Skiftenes & Saebo, Oystein (2022). Sharing, Cooperation or Collective Action? A Research Agenda for Online Interaction in Digital Global Governance .
Engvall, Tove Sofia & Flak, Leif Skiftenes (2022). Affordances of e-reporting on a supranational level: the case of Reportnet .
Engvall, Tove Sofia (2021). Exploring the Impact of Digital Global Governance through Affordance Theory: the Case of Climate Reporting. EGOV-CeDEM-ePart. ISSN 2524-1400. Full text in Research Archive
Engvall, Tove Sofia (2021). Exploring the impact of digital global governance through affordance theory: the case of climate reporting .
Engvall, Tove Sofia (2024). The role of information systems in global governance: The case of climate reporting. Universitetet i Agder. ISSN 978-82-8427-177-4. Full text in Research Archive

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