Dear colleagues,

I am writing on behalf of the European Digital Democracy Network 
(https://www.eddy-network.eu/). We are an interdisciplinary network that 
aims to bring together academics and practitioners actively working on 
or with digital democracy, to foster collaboration and knowledge 
exchange. After organizing several successful online events, we are now 
announcing our first in-person event, with keynote speakers from 
different scientific disciplines, including  political science (Fabrizio 
Gilardi, Digital Democracy Lab, University of Zurich and Carolina 
Plescia, University of Vienna), and practice.

So far, our network mostly reached practitioners and academics from 
computer science and philosophy, but is missing the voice of political 
science, which is so crucial to the discussion of digital democracy. 
Therefore, we would be delighted to receive proposals for contributed 
talks from political scientists and to see you in Rotterdam in April. 
For more information, see the Call for Contributions below.

Best regards,
Jan Maly


Call for Contributions: ‘Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and 
Practice’, 1st Conference of the European Network for Digital Democracy, 
Rotterdam (The Netherlands)


The European Digital DemocracY network <https://www.eddy-network.eu/> 
(EDDY) aims to bring together academics and practitioners actively 
working on or with digital democracy, to foster collaboration and 
knowledge exchange. After a successful series of online events, EDDY is 
proud to announce its first in-person conference, ‘Digital Democracy: 
Bridging Theory and Practice’, taking place at the Erasmus University of 
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from *Tuesday 9 April to Thursday 11 April 
2024*.

The event will feature contributed talks through an open call (see 
below), a range of social and interactive sessions (networking, 
round-table discussions, demo sessions, student sessions, etc.), and a 
variety of academic and non-academic keynote speakers: Markus Brill 
<https://sites.google.com/site/brillmarkus/> (University of Warwick), 
Corinne Cath <https://corinnecath.com/> (Delft University of Technology, 
University of Cambridge), Fabrizio Gilardi 
<https://fabriziogilardi.org/> (Digital Democracy Lab, University of 
Zurich), Carolina Plescia <https://www.carolinaplescia.com/> (University 
of Vienna), and Simon Strohmenger 
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-strohmenger-296725236/> (CONSUL, Mehr 
Demokratie).

We are opening two tracks for selected contributions at the conference: 
the /talks/ track and the /demos/ track. If you are an academic or a 
practitioner whose work is related to digital democracy, we invite you 
to submit a one-page description/abstract via this Oxford Abstracts page 
<https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/6984/submitter>, by *1 February 
2024* to either of our tracks:

  * *Talks track*. Selected talks will be given 20-30 minutes
    presentation time in the program. There will be no proceedings
    associated with the conference, so you are welcome to submit work
    that has been previously published by other conferences, journals,
    and so on.

  * *Demos track*. Selected demos will take place in parallel during a
    dedicated session, where you will be given access to a table and
    internet connection (‘bring your own laptop’ setup). Participants of
    the conference will be able to freely roam and join the different
    demos.

We welcome contributions from both academics and practitioners on any of 
the following 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 
divide, participatory budgeting, computational social choice, digital 
identities, social media, popular will, cryptocurrencies & blockchain, 
secrecy vs. publicity of votes and opinions. We particularly welcome 
submissions by students and early career scholars or practitioners.

Contributions will be selected on the basis of their connection to 
EDDY’s goals, with an eye toward the conference’s multi-, 
cross-disciplinary target audience and the diversity of projects and 
contributors. Depending on the number of submissions, some contributions 
may be selected for a poster presentation instead. Notification of 
acceptance will be sent by 15 February 2024.

This event is made possible thanks to funding and support by the Dutch 
Research Council (NWO) via Frederik Van De Putte’s VIDI project ENCODE 
and Ulle Endriss’s VICI project Collective Information, by the Erasmus 
School of Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, and by the 
Erasmus Initiative Societal Impact of AI.

For more information, see our website 
<https://www.eddy-network.eu/in-person-conference/> or write to 
[log in to unmask] to contact any of EDDY’s core committee members: 
Jan Maly (TU Wien), Ashley Maum (Framer Framed), Arianna Novaro (Paris 1 
University), Frederik van de Putte (Erasmus University Rotterdam).

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