The Gigatown competition (2013–2015) was a joint initiative between the telecommunications company Chorus and the New Zealand government to award a New Zealand town ‘the fastest internet in the Southern Hemisphere’ through a social media competition. In this paper, I argue the competition stimulated a range of activities that cohere with creative and smart city policies, the growth of information and communications technology (ICT) and immaterial labour, and the participatory turn in urban governance and planning. In its attempt to remake city-space as receptive for an imagined ICT future, the competition exemplifies what I call a Digital Cartography Enterprise. This term captures both the neoliberal and post-industrial spatial rationalities of urban planning and policy with respect to securing ICT-readiness as well as the governmentalised disciplining of the population to creatively subsidise such a venture through appeals to their entrepreneurialism in a social media competition.

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数字制图企业：新自由主义，政府和数字基础设施

Gigatown竞赛（2013-2015年）是电信公司Chorus和新西兰政府共同发起的一项竞赛，旨在通过社交媒体竞赛将新西兰城镇“南半球最快的互联网”授予该奖项。在本文中，我认为竞争刺激了一系列与创造性和智慧城市政策，信息和通信技术（ICT）和非物质劳动的增长以及城市管理和规划的参与性转变相协调的活动。为了使城市空间重新适应想象中的ICT未来，该竞赛体现了我所说的数字制图企业。