Post by John Gøtze

Three researchers - Irina Papazu, Morten Hjelholt and Anja Svejgaard Pors - just wrote the sharpest review of Danish public-sector enterprise architecture ever published. They didn't call it that. The new Power and Democracy study, Borgeren i den digitale velfærdsstat, documents what 20 years of "digital by default" actually cost. Around 400,000 Danes give up on benefits they're entitled to because the process is digital. Public trust that digitalisation benefits citizens fell from 58% to 42% in two years. Between 17 and 22% are "digitally vulnerable." That isn't a technology problem. It's an architecture problem, and a specific one. For two decades, public EA could only describe structure and function: who does what, and how it's built. It had no structural slot for who carries the risk, what the system is worth seen from the outside, or who has the competence to make it humane. The citizen wasn't deprioritised. She was ontologically invisible. This is exactly what EA⁶ is built to fix: it gives Risk, Value and People their own faces — and gives the stakeholder a structural address. I'm explaining my argument in the "book review" below (in Danish), warming up to a longer summer series on EA⁶. I just need to run the summer exams in enterprise architecture at IT-Universitetet i København first, while I help my government clients in building their enterprise architectures.