The Europ ean Digital DemocracY network (EDDY) aims to bring together academics and practitioners actively wor king on or with digital democracy, to foster colla boration and knowledge exchange. After a very succ essful first edition, EDDY is proud to announce it s second in-person conference, 'Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice' (EDDY2025), taking place at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbon ne, France, on the 12th and 13th of June, 2025.
\nThe event will feature contributed talks t hrough an open call (see below), a range of social and interactive sessions (networking, round-table discussions, demo sessions, etc.), and a variety of academic and non-academic keynote speakers, inc luding Umberto Gran di (Professor of Computer Science at the U niversity of Toulouse), Carolina Romero Cruz (co-founder and pro ject manager at Decidim), and Simone Vannuccini (Junior Professor o f Economics at Université Côte d'Azur).
\nWe are opening two tracks for selecte
d contributions at the conference: the talks track
and the demos track. We welcome contributions fro
m both academics and practitioners on any of the f
ollowing topics, in relation to digital democracy:
online deliberation, liquid democracy, the public
sphere, apps and tools for online decision-making
, machine learning, crowdsourcing, the digital div
ide, participatory budgeting, computational social
choice, digital identities, social media, popular
will, cryptocurrencies & blockchain, secrecy vs.
publicity of votes and opinions.
\n We particu
larly welcome submissions by students and early ca
reer scholars or practitioners.
Contribu tions will be selected on the basis of their conne ction to EDDY’s goals, with an eye toward the conf erence’s multi-, cross-disciplinary target audienc e and the diversity of projects and contributors. Depending on the number of submissions, some contr ibutions may be selected for a poster presentation instead. Notification of acceptance is expected b y March 21st, 2025.
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