Seminar of digital democracy • session #5

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How are you doing?

...and your projects?

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Programme

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Session Theme Date Place
✅ Session #1 Introduction 22 September 14:00 LECL80
✅ Session #2 Social media politics 13 October 14:00 LECL80
✅ Session #3 Algorithms and filter bubbles 27 October 14:00 LECL80
✅ Session #4 Digital divide and online tools to shape political opinions 10 November 14:00 LECL80
👉 Session #5 Civic tech and the digitalization of citizen participation 24 November 14:00 LECL80
🗓 Session #6  Internet privacy and data collection 8 December 14:00 LECL80
🗓 Session #7 Blockchain, web3 and decentralized governance 22 December 14:00 LECL80

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seminarofdigitaldemocracy.net/programme

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Today's programme

  • Individual projects: work session
  • Civic tech and the digitalization of citizen participation: animation by Elie
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Individual projects

— Collective work session

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“Civic tech and the digitalization of citizen participation”

— Discussion

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Examples of civic tech projects

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@Jun on Twitter

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People Powered's Guide to Digital Participation Platforms

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Questions for discussion

  • What is/are civic tech?
  • What is civic tech used for?
  • Are social media civic tech?
  • Should citizen participation be digitalized?
  • What are the pros and cons of digitalizing citizen participation?
  • How should citizen participation be digitalized?
  • What are the democratic challenges of civic tech?
  • What do you think of the idea of open data?
  • What do you think of liquid/delegative democracy?
  • What's next for civic tech?
  • ...
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See you next time! 👋

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