This volume contains the papers presented at the IFDAD 2022 INTERNATIONAL FORUM on DIGITAL and DEMOCRACY 2022, November 17-18, 2022, held as an in person and online event in Rome, Italy. The collection of papers in this proceedings were selected from those submitted by an international Program Committee. (in alphabetical order).
disinformation. 1. Introduction The conference aims to be a meeting place between politics and academics a moment of confrontation, promoting international collaboration in the exchange of information, ideas and good practices. Since the first edition of the Forum, in December 2020, the stretching of pandemic control measures constrained furthermore individual freedoms. In some cases, it provided legitimacy to authoritarian shift in frail democratic governance. According to Democracy Index in 2021 global democracy continued its decline and experienced its biggest annual drop since 2010 after the global financial crisis. Whereas even the United States, the stronghold of democracy, in occasion of the Capitol attack, showed to be unshielded to the outburst of illiberal forces. For fragile democracies dificult times lie ahead. However, if the spirit of democracy and its needs remains strong among people, recovery hopes are also to be placed in the righteous use of digital technologies. The expected outcome of the Forum is to gain a greater understanding and shared view on how digital technologies can positively afect electoral process and pluralism. As a follow-up of the debate of the first edition, the Forum will explore and develop the interplay between digital technology and data, political participation, and governance. Altogether with two additional focus: the functioning of eGovernment and
We thank our incredible program committee, comprising the following esteemed researchers IFDAD 2022 INTERNATIONAL FORUM on DIGITAL and DEMOCRACY 2022, November 17-18, Rome, Italy nEvelop-O 2. Program Committee • Paolo Ceravolo (University of Milan) • Marco Cremonini (University of Milan) • Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan) • Pari Esfandiari Global (TechnoPolitics Forum) • Geofrey Goodell (University College London) • Tanel Kerikmäe (Tallinn University of Technology) • Adrian Rauchfleisch (National Taiwan University) • Fadi Salem (University of Oxford) • Edoardo Sinibaldi (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)) • Edoardo Vigano (Aarhus University)