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First International Forum on Digital and Democracy.
Towards A Sustainable Evolution (IFDaD 2020)
1. Introduction
The online Forum brings together politicians and academia to address the concern on how
Digital Age exploited for political purposes is challenging democracy by threatening the integrity
of its institutions and bodies.
Associazione Copernicani together with Re-Imagine Europa promoted the event held under
the umbrella of the European Commission, UNESCO, SDSN, Minister of Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation. The forum has received the appraisal of the President of the Italian
Republic: Medaglia del Presidente della Repubblica.
The Forum goal is to gain a greater understanding and a shared view of the impact digital
transformations are posing to liberal and democratic values with special focus on the impact of
a global health pandemic.
The Forum opens with a keynote address by Hon. Věra Jourová, European Vice-President
for Values and Transparency, unveiling the European Democracy Action Plan, the European
Commission flagship initiative that seeks to strengthen democracy and promote digital literacy.
Her intervention will set the scene for the two-day discussions engaging among the others
sociologist and Spanish Minister of Universities Manuel Castells, former EU President Romano
Prodi; public policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs. Though online, the forum will safeguard the opportu-
nity of direct exchanges between the interveners with on purpose chat rooms. Presented at the
Forum also ten unpublished academic papers on the most pressing questions around the impact
of AI, blockchain and ADM on political decision, social involvement, functioning of parties,
information access and integrity.
The program sessions were organized according to four tracks, namely:
• TRACK 1 Democracy and political decision: Analysis from an individual standpoint:
develop effective, accountable and transparent Institutions. The role of technology in
pursuing such aims. Computer aided policy making, civic artificial intelligence. How
artificial intelligence could assist citizens in activating their rights, including information
and participation rights. The changing role of institutions based on inclusive voting.
How e-voting can help the formulation of parliamentary and assembly proceedings (e.g.
critical situation like COVID-19). Balance between representative system and direct or
deliberative participation.
International Forum on Digital and Democracy. Towards A Sustainable Evolution (IFDaD 2020), Online Event, December
10–11, 2020, Venice, Italy
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• TRACK 2 Social involvement and participation: Analysis from a society standpoint:
ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all
levels. How people are engaged and eventually become part of the organization. How
people are educated and informed; how the public opinion is formed and can be oriented;
how media and platforms should work to promote democracy and human rights (top
down flows). Citizen inclusion and digital divide: gender, age, education.
• TRACK 3 Participation and functioning of parties: Analysis from a body standpoint:
broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of
global governance. How people opinion is collected, structured and analyzed; how people
self-organize to form political entities; the role of participatory budgeting, e-Consultation,
e-Polling, and e-Legislation [citizen assemblies, popular initiatives, petitions (bottom up
flows)]. Parties’ internal operation: frameworks for a political ERP system.
• TRACK 4 Information access and integrity: Analysis from a institution standpoint:
ensure public access to sound information and protect fundamental freedoms in accor-
dance with national legislation and international agreements. How people are informed
about the work of organizations (including PA). Methods to finance political parties and
campaigns; methods for countering corruption; how to address the self-propagation
issue in the political class (i.e. people getting in power and then doing whatever it takes
to stay there and/or get a private financial gain). Big data, fake news and democracy
manipulation: after Cambridge Analytica.
The Organising Scientific Committee gratefully thanks all those who have contributed with
their work and their enthusiasm to the success of this first edition of IFDaD: the members of the
Program Committee, the Scientific Committee, Copernicani Association, ReImagine Europa, Ca’
Foscari University of Venice, invited speakers, the sponsors, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, UNESCO,
the European Commission, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Minister of
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and all collaborators who participated in the
organisation.
December, 2020 - Venice, Italy
Patrizia Feletig
Andrea Loreggia
Andrea Resca
Stefano Quintarelli
2. Program Chairs
Carlo Bagnoli Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Giorgio De Michelis University of Milan Bicocca
Patrizia Feletig Guarini Institute for Public Affairs - John Cabot University
Andrea Loreggia European University Institute, Fiesole (FI), Italy
Andrea Resca University of Castellanza - LIUC, Castellanza (VA), Italy
Stefano Quintarelli Associazione Copernicani
3. Program Committee
Ricardo Abramovay University of São Paulo
Paolo Benanti Pontificia Università Gregoriana
Alessio Maria Braccini University of Tuscia
Markus Brill TU Berlin
Lucia Busatta University of Trento
Carlo Casonato Universrity of Trento
Giuseppe Contissa University of Bologna
Giorgio De Michelis University of Milan Bicocca
Tommaso Federici University of Tuscia
Patrizia Feletig Associazione Copernicani
Umberto Grandi University of Toulouse
Davide Grossi University of Groningen
Andrea Loreggia European University Institute
Gianluca Misuraca European Commission, JRC-IPTS
Pablo Ortellado Universidade de Sao Paulo
Frank Pasquale University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Simone Penasa University of Trento
Stefano Quintarelli Associazione Copernicani
Andrea Resca LIUC -Università di Castellanza, Varese
Ehud Shapiro Weizmann Institute of Science
Esther Solano UNIFESP
Audrey Tang Executive Yuan
Marta Tomasi University of Trento
Tommaso Valletti Imperial College London
Rafael Zanatta University of São Paulo