The physical, geographical city with its piazza's, its neighbourhoods and crossings intersects with the "virtual space" of electronic communication-, information- and observation-networks of GSM, GPS, CCTV, UMTS, WIFI, RFID, etc. At the same time, the domain of digital space is increasingly becoming physical, an "internet of things" is emerging. Another example is the rise of 'pervasive games', digital games with a physical component in urban space. Is it still useful or even possible to talk about the city as being only physical? Or about the digital world as purely "virtual" (in the sense of 'not real' or immaterial)? The physical city and the spaces of digital technologies merge into a new "hybrid space". Hybrid spaces are shaped by the social processes that concurrently take place in digital and physical spaces. What is the influence of these developments on the ideas we have of time, space and place, citizenship and identity?
Mobile Government 
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