ACADEMIC TRACK

Commission hall

Donderdag 9 oktober

11:00 – 12:30

European Digital Democracy Network: Contemporary Research (1)

Emma Hoes (ETH Zürich), Luiza Jardim (Fundação Getulio Vargas São Paulo), Anna Mikhaylovskaya (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Academic presentations by independent researchers: 1) The Hidden Politics of Social Media: When Non-Political Influencers Shape What We Believe 2) Inclusion in Digital Participation: Affordances and Constraints 3) Nurturing Virtues with Digital Democratic Innovations.

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13:30 – 15:00

European project: Advancing Digital Democracy Innovation (ADDI)

Umberto Grandi (Université Toulouse Capitole), Jairo Gudiño-Rosero (ETH Zürich), Maija Setälä (University of Turku)

Academic presentations by European research project ADDI: 1) Project overview 2) Large Language Models as Agents for Augmented Democracy 3) LLMs in Democratic Deliberation

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15:30 – 17:00

AI4Deliberation: AI-enabled deliberative platforms in public organisations

Sem Nouws (TU Delft), Bram Delisse (Co-founder & Operations lead at Dembrane)

Academic presentations by European research project: 1) Overview of the AI4Deliberation project 2) Role of public organisations 3) Insights from ongoing research

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Vrijdag 10 oktober

09:30 – 11:00

European Digital Democracy Network: Contemporary Research (2)

Arianna Novaro (CES, Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Jos van Leeuwen (Haagse Hogeschool), Feline Lindeboom (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Academic presentations by independent researchers: 1) Bridging Theory and Practice in Digital Democracy: A COMSOC Perspective 2) Diversity in Approval-Based Committee Elections under Incomplete or Inaccurate Information 3) Online deliberation and the opportunities and challenges of generative AI.

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11:30 - 13:00

European project: Participatory Democracy that Scales (PERYCLES)

Davide Grossi (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Élise Rouméas & Anna Mikhaylovskaya (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Axel Kistner (LiquidFeedback), Andreas Nitsche (Association for Interactive Democracy)

Academic presentations by European research project: 1) Overview of the Perycles project 2) Promoting Compromise through Digital Democratic Innovations 3) LiquidFeedback: Democratic Self-governance at Scale 4) Delegations as Adaptive Representation Patterns: Transitive Influence and Network Plasticity in Liquid Democracy

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14:00 – 15:30

European project: Innovative Democracy Through Digitalization (INNOVADE)

Fatih Yilmaz (Beyond the Horizon ISSG), Joel Museba (Paderborn University), Laurien Coenen (KU Leuven)

Academic presentations by European research project: 1) Knowledge Base for Digital Democracy 2) Panel presentation and discussion on “Digital Democracy and Policy-Making”.

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