The conference aims to be a meeting place between politics and academics a moment of confrontation, promoting international collaboration in the exchange of information, ideas and good practices.
IFDaD 2020 // first edition
INTERNATIONAL FORUM on DIGITAL and DEMOCRACY. Towards a sustainable Evolution
The digital age, featuring the immaterial world, significantly impacts democracy, dealing with electoral systems, political representations and citizens’ participation. The Internet revolution has scaled up and speeded up the pace of transformation of political organization, participation, information and engagement, weakening the role of intermediate structures.
Democracy in the digital age draws the tension between individuals and society, institutions and bodies, and between rights and duties, especially in critical situation like health emergency. Digital evolution is supposed to support the SDG objective 16 not diverging, as it might appear, from a respectable sustainable development of human rights.
This aim is gaining a better understanding favouring a shared view of how to address the challenges posed by digital technologies in order to broaden and strengthen citizens’ participation and to build effective, accountable and transparent democratic institutions.
INVITED SPEAKERS
With the contribution of high-level experts and government representatives from around the world, the conference will address the following issues: managing speed and scale of digital with the policy making process, considering the current ecosystem of analogue institutions; analysis of guarantees, limitations, obligations, privacy, transparency in the changing scenario; overview of what has been tried and which lessons have been learned; hypothesis for the future.
Jeffrey Sachs
Gianluca Misuraca
Romano Prodi
Kofi Annan Foundation
Dave Eggers
Federico D’Incà
Vincenzo Amendola
Erika Widegren
Audrey Azoulay
(to be confirmed)
PROGRAM
Day One: Auditorium Santa Margherita Ca’ Foscari – Dorsoduro, 3689, 30123 Campo Santa Margherita
Day Two: Fondazione Giorgio Cini – Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, 30124 Venezia VE
Roundtable Pandemic and Democracy
2h
Auditorium di Santa Margherita, Campo Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro
17:00
Keynotes speakers
2
Auditorium di Santa Margherita, Campo Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro
19:00
Dave Eggers
1h
Auditorium di Santa Margherita, Campo Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro
09:00
Welcome coffee
30min
Fondazione Cini, isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
09:30
Stefano Quintarelli
30mins
Fondazione Cini, isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
10:00
Parallel Sessions
2h
Fondazione Cini, isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Light Lunch and poster exhibition
1h30mins
Fondazione Cini, isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
13:30
Parallel Sessions
2h
Fondazione Cini, isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
15:30
Gianluca Misuraca
30min
Fondazione Cini, isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
16:00
Kofi Annan Foundation
30min
Fondazione Cini, isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
16:30
Rapporteurs exposition
1h
Fondazione Cini, isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
17:30
Jeffrey Sachs
30min
Fondazione Cini, isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Forum’s official language is English. No translation available.
VENUE
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice + Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Venice is tied to the idea of deliberative democracy since its peculiar elective system guaranteed for over five centuries a sound governance and political stability to the Serenissima Repubblica of Venice. Venice is a role model since the election term in use today, such as ballot or ballot-box, originated from “ballotta”, which was the Venetian name for the small ball used for the election of the Doge. From 1268 to 1797, Venice enjoyed the most stable republican government ever and, when it fell, it was not due to an institutional crisis but to external factors, namely Napoleon’s invasion of the Republic of Venice.
REGISTRATION
Registration to the conference is free of charge until sold out.
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- Travel grants with limited funding are availiable applying at info@ifdad.org with a cv, a motivation letter and only to authors of accepted papers. Travel grants selection will be communicated on Nov. 15, 2020
- In the case of restrictions on mass gatherings and large events or on travels, e.g. due to Covid-19, IFDaD 2020 will be held online
CALL FOR PAPERS
Laws, institutions and organizations with secular foundations, with their times and human scale are not compatible with the scale and speed of the immaterial world exploited for political purposes.
TRACK 1 | Democracy and political decision
Analysis from an individual standpoint: develop effective, accountable and transparent Institutions. The role of technology in pursuing such aims. Computer aided policy making, civic artificial intelligence. How artificial intelligence could assist citizens in activating their rights, including information and participation rights. The changing role of institutions based on inclusive voting. How e-voting can help the formulation of parliamentary and assembly proceedings (e.g. critical situation like COVID-19). Balance between representative system and direct or deliberative participation.
TRACK 2 Social involvement and participation
Analysis from a society standpoint: ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels. How people are engaged and eventually become part of the organization. How people are educated and informed; how the public opinion is formed and can be oriented; how media and platforms should work to promote democracy and human rights (top down flows). Citizen inclusion and digital divide: gender, age, education.
TRACK 3 Participation and functioning of parties
Analysis from a body standpoint: broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance. How people opinion is collected, structured and analyzed; how people self-organize to form political entities; the role of participatory budgeting, e-Consultation, e-Polling, and e-Legislation [citizen assemblies, popular initiatives, petitions (bottom up flows)]. Parties’ internal operation: frameworks for a political ERP system.
TRACK 4 Information access and integrity
Analysis from a institution standpoint: ensure public access to sound information and protect fundamental freedoms in accordance with national legislation and international agreements. How people are informed about the work of organizations (including PA). Methods to finance political parties and campaigns; methods for countering corruption; how to address the self-propagation issue in the political class (i.e. people getting in power and then doing whatever it takes to stay there and/or get a private financial gain). Big data, fake news and democracy manipulation: after Cambridge Analytica.
IMPORTANT DATES
September 1st 2020 Submission deadline
October 10th 2020 Communication of the Accepted Paper
November 10th 2020 Camera-ready deadline
PUBLICATION
The proceedings of the forum shall be submitted to be published by CEUR in the CEUR-WS.org: AI*IA Series. CEUR is a free open-access publication service of Sun SITE Central Europe. The copyright of each paper remains with the authors, and each author is responsible for maintaining the copyright of the presented material. Note that only papers that are 6 pages or more in length will be published in the forum CEUR proceedings.
IFDaD’20 will not consider any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Once submitted to IFDaD’20, authors may not submit the paper elsewhere during IFDaD’s review period. These restrictions apply only to refereed journals and conferences, not to unrefereed forums or workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Authors must confirm that their submissions conform to these requirements at the time of submission.
BioLaw Journal may consider conference papers in the area of law, artificial intelligence, life sciences and bioethics for publication. Selected papers need to be extended and adapted according to the journal’s requirements.
COMMITTEES
Scientific Committee
Audrey Tang
Ehud Shapiro
Frank Pasquale
Gianluca Misuraca
Jeffrey Sachs
Paolo Benanti
Ricardo Abramovay
Sarah Spiekermann
Siriwat William Chhem
Tommaso Valletti
Organizing Committee
Carlo Bagnoli
Giorgio De Michelis
Patrizia Feletig
Andrea Loreggia
Stefano Quintarelli
Andrea Resca
Niccolò Serri
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