The DECODE Ecosystem: Tools for citizens’ data sovereignty in BarcelonaPablo Aragón
Digital Democracy and Data Commons. This pilot will involve the Barcelona City Council and the city’s digital democracy software Decidim.org, which has more than 60K users. The platform will integrate a DECODE module which allows petitions to be signed anonymously but still in line with authentication requirements, such as place of residence. This new system for citizen petitions that gives people more granular control over their data. It will enhance privacy (via the DECODE app), allow data sharing and visualization (via the BCNOW dashboard) and transparency (via the DECODE distributed ledger).
The pilot will also open a deliberative, participatory process on the politics and economics of data, and how Barcelona could constitute a democratic city data commons. You can keep up to date with the pilot or participate here.
Citizen Science Data Governance. In this pilot residents will use environmental sensors which record factors such as noise levels and pollution. The sensors will be located inside their homes and in their neighbourhood. DECODE technology will enable them to share this encrypted data anonymously with their communities, on their own terms. The pilot will run sessions to train and support participants to help them setup and use the sensors to gather and analyse data to influence city-level decisions. The pilot tackles the technical challenges of collating and storing a stream of citizen-sensed data, while also enabling those citizens to control what information is shared with whom, and under which conditions. This pilot will be run in collaboration with Barcelona community organisations Ideas for Change and FabLab Barcelona.
Citizen participation in Rome (Cecilia Colasanti - Roma Capitale)mysociety
This was presented by Cecilia Colasanti from Roma Capitale at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2018) in Lisbon on 19th April 2018. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org/2018
4th Databeers BCN - When a movement becomes a partyPablo Aragón
Barcelona en Comú, an emerging grassroots movement-party, won the 2015 Barcelona City Council election. This candidacy was devised by activists involved in the 15M movement in order to turn citizen outrage into political change. On the one hand, the 15M movement is based on a decentralized structure. On the other hand, political science literature postulates that parties historically develop oligarchical leadership structures. This tension motivates us to examine whether Barcelona en Comú preserved a decentralized structure or adopted a conventional centralized organization. In this article we analyse the Twitter networks of the parties that ran for this election by measuring their hierarchical structure, information efficiency and social resilience. Our results show that in Barcelona en Com\'u two well-defined groups co-exist: a cluster dominated by the leader and the collective accounts, and another cluster formed by the movement activists. While the former group is highly centralized like the other major parties, the latter one stands out for its decentralized, cohesive and resilient structure.
Pablo Aragón - Decidim, free open-source participatory democracy for cities a...Fundacja ePaństwo
Pablo Aragón (Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Eurecat) - Decidim, free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
3. Festival of Civic Tech for Democracy @ Personal Democracy Forum CEE 2019
April 6, 2019
Gdańsk, Poland
The DECODE Ecosystem: Tools for citizens’ data sovereignty in BarcelonaPablo Aragón
Digital Democracy and Data Commons. This pilot will involve the Barcelona City Council and the city’s digital democracy software Decidim.org, which has more than 60K users. The platform will integrate a DECODE module which allows petitions to be signed anonymously but still in line with authentication requirements, such as place of residence. This new system for citizen petitions that gives people more granular control over their data. It will enhance privacy (via the DECODE app), allow data sharing and visualization (via the BCNOW dashboard) and transparency (via the DECODE distributed ledger).
The pilot will also open a deliberative, participatory process on the politics and economics of data, and how Barcelona could constitute a democratic city data commons. You can keep up to date with the pilot or participate here.
Citizen Science Data Governance. In this pilot residents will use environmental sensors which record factors such as noise levels and pollution. The sensors will be located inside their homes and in their neighbourhood. DECODE technology will enable them to share this encrypted data anonymously with their communities, on their own terms. The pilot will run sessions to train and support participants to help them setup and use the sensors to gather and analyse data to influence city-level decisions. The pilot tackles the technical challenges of collating and storing a stream of citizen-sensed data, while also enabling those citizens to control what information is shared with whom, and under which conditions. This pilot will be run in collaboration with Barcelona community organisations Ideas for Change and FabLab Barcelona.
Citizen participation in Rome (Cecilia Colasanti - Roma Capitale)mysociety
This was presented by Cecilia Colasanti from Roma Capitale at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2018) in Lisbon on 19th April 2018. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org/2018
4th Databeers BCN - When a movement becomes a partyPablo Aragón
Barcelona en Comú, an emerging grassroots movement-party, won the 2015 Barcelona City Council election. This candidacy was devised by activists involved in the 15M movement in order to turn citizen outrage into political change. On the one hand, the 15M movement is based on a decentralized structure. On the other hand, political science literature postulates that parties historically develop oligarchical leadership structures. This tension motivates us to examine whether Barcelona en Comú preserved a decentralized structure or adopted a conventional centralized organization. In this article we analyse the Twitter networks of the parties that ran for this election by measuring their hierarchical structure, information efficiency and social resilience. Our results show that in Barcelona en Com\'u two well-defined groups co-exist: a cluster dominated by the leader and the collective accounts, and another cluster formed by the movement activists. While the former group is highly centralized like the other major parties, the latter one stands out for its decentralized, cohesive and resilient structure.
Pablo Aragón - Decidim, free open-source participatory democracy for cities a...Fundacja ePaństwo
Pablo Aragón (Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Eurecat) - Decidim, free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
3. Festival of Civic Tech for Democracy @ Personal Democracy Forum CEE 2019
April 6, 2019
Gdańsk, Poland
When a Movement Becomes a Party: Computational Assessment of New Forms of Pol...Pablo Aragón
Social media has become a key mechanism for the organization of grassroots movements. In the 2015 Barcelona City Council election, Barcelona en Comú, an emerging grassroots party, was the most voted one. This candidacy was devised by activists involved in the Spanish 15M movement in order to turn citizen outrage into political change. On the one hand, the 15M movement is based on a decentralized structure. On the other hand, political science literature postulates that parties historically develop oligarchical leadership structures.
This tension motivates us to examine whether Barcelona en Comú preserved a decentralized structure or adopted a conventional centralized organization. In this article we propose a computational framework to analyze the Twitter networks of the parties that ran for this election by measuring their hierarchical structure, small-world phenomenon and coreness. The results of our assessment show that in Barcelona en Comu two well-defined ´ groups co-exist: a cluster dominated by the party leader and the collective accounts, and another cluster formed by the movement activists. While the former group is highly centralized like traditional parties, the latter one stands out for its decentralized, cohesive and resilient structure
Introduction HackDemocracy Meetup 5: Citizen Platforms for Political Accounta...hackdemocracy
HackDemocracy Brussels' 5th Meetup on Citizen Platforms for Political Accountability & G1000 Citizens Summit. Presentations about Demoscha.Be and Memopol.
Introduction HackDemocracy Meetup 5: Citizen Platforms for Political Accounta...hackdemocracy
HackDemocracy Brussels' 5th Meetup on Citizen Platforms for Political Accountability & the G1000 Citizens Summit. Presentations by Demoscha.Be and Memopol.
Prof. Pieter Ballon, Director Living Labs at ENoLL and coordinator of Smart Cities at iMinds, presenting No Smart Cities without Creative Cities: The Creative Ring in Europe during the ENoLL fringe session "Open Innovation and Living Labs shaping the cities and regions of the future" at the EC Innovation Convention 2014.
FIWARE Global Summit - Digital Service Infrastructure for the EU Digital Sing...FIWARE
Presentation by Daniele Rizzi
Principal Administrator and Policy Officer, Connecting Europe Facility Program, European Commission
FIWARE Global Summit
27-28 November 2018
Malaga, Spain
Decidim and the Municipal Action Plan in Barcelona: co-producing and auditing...mysociety
This was presented by Pablo Aragón (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) and Virgile Deville (Open Source Politics, Code for France, Democracy Earth) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2019) in Paris on 20th March 2019. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org/2019
From Citizen Data to the Wisdom of the Crowds: The Case Study of Decide MadridPablo Aragón
In September 2015 the Madrid City Council opened "Decide Madrid", a portal to discuss and decide the city model through debates and proposals. Debates were conceived as discussion threads opened and commented by any citizen. Proposals were designed to allow citizens to publish petitions, receive support from other citizens and finally run a public voting of the entire population.
The present work is the analysis of Decide Madrid conducted within the EU-funded D-CENT project in collaboration with the Area of Citizen Participation, Transparency and Open Government of the City Council. The goal of the study is to reveal insights that provide feedback for the refinement of the platform.
First we address the distribution of activity over time and observed peaks of activity. In the first week, users could only debate and, once proposals were available, activity focused on them rather than on debates. This might be explained because citizens were engaged in the possibility of achieving tangible political goals instead of just debating as they daily do in online social networks. When this pattern emerged, the managers indicated that debates would be improved by the participation of political representatives. Our results prove the success of this initiative. We also identify the community structure of the platform through social network analysis techniques. We find a well-connected structure without well-defined clusters of users: users were not strongly clustered around preferences. However, our analysis detects a cluster partially isolated from the main component of the network: a community of trolls mostly focused on goliardic actions. Finally, we assess a computational model to quantify the degree of deliberation given the structure of discussion threads, and present the results in an interactive visualization as a way to better understand how discussion builds Collective Intelligence.
Presentation given by Goran Forbici at the Service Design and Delivery in a Digital Age - Academies for EaP countries organised by the SIGMA Programme and the GiZ Eastern Partnership Regional Fund. Topic 4: Gathering user insights and feedback.
When a Movement Becomes a Party: Computational Assessment of New Forms of Pol...Pablo Aragón
Social media has become a key mechanism for the organization of grassroots movements. In the 2015 Barcelona City Council election, Barcelona en Comú, an emerging grassroots party, was the most voted one. This candidacy was devised by activists involved in the Spanish 15M movement in order to turn citizen outrage into political change. On the one hand, the 15M movement is based on a decentralized structure. On the other hand, political science literature postulates that parties historically develop oligarchical leadership structures.
This tension motivates us to examine whether Barcelona en Comú preserved a decentralized structure or adopted a conventional centralized organization. In this article we propose a computational framework to analyze the Twitter networks of the parties that ran for this election by measuring their hierarchical structure, small-world phenomenon and coreness. The results of our assessment show that in Barcelona en Comu two well-defined ´ groups co-exist: a cluster dominated by the party leader and the collective accounts, and another cluster formed by the movement activists. While the former group is highly centralized like traditional parties, the latter one stands out for its decentralized, cohesive and resilient structure
Introduction HackDemocracy Meetup 5: Citizen Platforms for Political Accounta...hackdemocracy
HackDemocracy Brussels' 5th Meetup on Citizen Platforms for Political Accountability & G1000 Citizens Summit. Presentations about Demoscha.Be and Memopol.
Introduction HackDemocracy Meetup 5: Citizen Platforms for Political Accounta...hackdemocracy
HackDemocracy Brussels' 5th Meetup on Citizen Platforms for Political Accountability & the G1000 Citizens Summit. Presentations by Demoscha.Be and Memopol.
Prof. Pieter Ballon, Director Living Labs at ENoLL and coordinator of Smart Cities at iMinds, presenting No Smart Cities without Creative Cities: The Creative Ring in Europe during the ENoLL fringe session "Open Innovation and Living Labs shaping the cities and regions of the future" at the EC Innovation Convention 2014.
FIWARE Global Summit - Digital Service Infrastructure for the EU Digital Sing...FIWARE
Presentation by Daniele Rizzi
Principal Administrator and Policy Officer, Connecting Europe Facility Program, European Commission
FIWARE Global Summit
27-28 November 2018
Malaga, Spain
Decidim and the Municipal Action Plan in Barcelona: co-producing and auditing...mysociety
This was presented by Pablo Aragón (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) and Virgile Deville (Open Source Politics, Code for France, Democracy Earth) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2019) in Paris on 20th March 2019. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org/2019
From Citizen Data to the Wisdom of the Crowds: The Case Study of Decide MadridPablo Aragón
In September 2015 the Madrid City Council opened "Decide Madrid", a portal to discuss and decide the city model through debates and proposals. Debates were conceived as discussion threads opened and commented by any citizen. Proposals were designed to allow citizens to publish petitions, receive support from other citizens and finally run a public voting of the entire population.
The present work is the analysis of Decide Madrid conducted within the EU-funded D-CENT project in collaboration with the Area of Citizen Participation, Transparency and Open Government of the City Council. The goal of the study is to reveal insights that provide feedback for the refinement of the platform.
First we address the distribution of activity over time and observed peaks of activity. In the first week, users could only debate and, once proposals were available, activity focused on them rather than on debates. This might be explained because citizens were engaged in the possibility of achieving tangible political goals instead of just debating as they daily do in online social networks. When this pattern emerged, the managers indicated that debates would be improved by the participation of political representatives. Our results prove the success of this initiative. We also identify the community structure of the platform through social network analysis techniques. We find a well-connected structure without well-defined clusters of users: users were not strongly clustered around preferences. However, our analysis detects a cluster partially isolated from the main component of the network: a community of trolls mostly focused on goliardic actions. Finally, we assess a computational model to quantify the degree of deliberation given the structure of discussion threads, and present the results in an interactive visualization as a way to better understand how discussion builds Collective Intelligence.
Presentation given by Goran Forbici at the Service Design and Delivery in a Digital Age - Academies for EaP countries organised by the SIGMA Programme and the GiZ Eastern Partnership Regional Fund. Topic 4: Gathering user insights and feedback.
Intervención en el Seminario “Parliaments on the Net'. “Movilidad, transparencia y parlamento abierto: buenas prácticas en los sitios web de los parlamentos (31.05.2012) Senado
Presentation "e-Democracy: Connecting European Youth and Politics Through Digital Tools" for JEF Europe seminar in Edinburgh, Scotland on February 3rd, 2017.
On Monday 16 November 2015, Tinder Foundation's CEO Helen Milner OBE visited a Parliament Week event in York to deliver a public lecture entitled 'Does Parliament Dream of Electric Sheep?' These are the slides from her speech.
On Monday 16 November 2015, Tinder Foundation's CEO Helen Milner OBE visited a Parliament Week event in York to deliver a public lecture entitled 'Does Parliament Dream of Electric Sheep?' These are the slides from her speech.
This introduction to Nesta’s work on digital democracy was shared with the Kirklees Democracy Commission as part of our evidence gathering in September 2016.
D-CENT (Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies) is a Europe-wide project bringing together citizen-led organisations that have transformed democracy in the past years, and helping them in developing the next generation of open source, distributed, and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. Here's a short introduction to our tools and pilots. Why you should use D-CENT? Visit http://tools.dcentproject.eu
The state of Civic Tech and Govtech in France (Tatiana de Feraudy, Décider en...mysociety
This was presented by Tatiana de Feraudy (Décider ensemble, France) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2019) in Paris on 19th March 2019. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org/2019
Future Innovation Forum 2017
Keynote_ Social Innovation, Finding the Solution for Democracy
2017 미래혁신포럼
기조연설_사회혁신, 민주주의에 해답을 찾아서
More info at www.seoulfif.co.kr
Future Innovation Forum 2017
Stories of Democracy by Ordinary, but Extraordinary Citizens
2017 미래혁신포럼
평범하지만 평범하지 않은 시민들의 민주주의 이야기
More info at www.seoulfif.co.kr
This presentation, created by Syed Faiz ul Hassan, explores the profound influence of media on public perception and behavior. It delves into the evolution of media from oral traditions to modern digital and social media platforms. Key topics include the role of media in information propagation, socialization, crisis awareness, globalization, and education. The presentation also examines media influence through agenda setting, propaganda, and manipulative techniques used by advertisers and marketers. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of surveillance enabled by media technologies on personal behavior and preferences. Through this comprehensive overview, the presentation aims to shed light on how media shapes collective consciousness and public opinion.
Collapsing Narratives: Exploring Non-Linearity • a micro report by Rosie WellsRosie Wells
Insight: In a landscape where traditional narrative structures are giving way to fragmented and non-linear forms of storytelling, there lies immense potential for creativity and exploration.
'Collapsing Narratives: Exploring Non-Linearity' is a micro report from Rosie Wells.
Rosie Wells is an Arts & Cultural Strategist uniquely positioned at the intersection of grassroots and mainstream storytelling.
Their work is focused on developing meaningful and lasting connections that can drive social change.
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