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Deepening Digital Democracy Workshop 2023. Engaging with the impacts of digital technologies on democratic innovation

When:Mo 30-01-2023 10:00 - 18:00
Where:Campus Fryslan, Wirdumerdijk 34, Leeuwarden. Registration Required. To register, please indicate whether you will attend online or on-site and send an email to: e.roumeas@rug.nl

(!) Registration Required. To register, please indicate whether you will attend online or on-site and send an email to: e.roumeas@rug.nl

Program

10.00 – 10.15 – Introduction by Karsten Schulz

10.15 – 12.00 Panel 1 (Digital deliberation)

  • Benjamin Leruth – Institutionalizing Multi-level Citizens’ Juries: a Sustainable Way Forward?
  • Jelle Turkenburg – Mazi-ing a Mini-public: Examining the Effects of a Deliberative Referendum on Citizens Levels of Political Trust.
  • Anna MiKhaylovskaya – Enhancing Deliberation with Digital Democratic Innovations

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch Break

12:45 – 14:30 Panel 2 (Practionionars’ Views on the Consul Project)

  • Eshter Nass – Consul Democracy Foundation
  • Nepthis Brandsma – Municipality of Groningen

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:45 P anel 3 (Democracy and Digitalization)

  • Kalypso Nicolaidis – The Democratic Panopticon
  • Davide Grossi – Democratic Algorithms
  • David Langley – Democratic Powers in the Era of Pervasive Digitalisation

16:45 – 17:15 Concluding Discussion

18:00 Workshop dinner (for participants)