On each day, Monday to Friday, there will be a morning as well as an afternoon session, each scheduled for three and a half hours with a coffee break in between. We plan to typically have two lectures in the morning and two in the afternoon. However, two morning sessions (on Wednesday and Friday) are completely dedicated to the group projects that will also be supervised by lectures. The project sessions will explore how the values of Digital Humanism can guide the conception of socio-technical systems, particular in terms of participation and democracy. The focus is on understanding conflicting goals that such systems face, drawing on multiple perspectives, and using an interdisciplinary approach to account for political, and social values (fairness, etc) and concerns. Internationally renowned and leading academics from computer science, social sciences, law and humanities present and discuss important recent topics and themes, including:

Foundational issues: Foundational and philosophical issues of digital technologies and AI.
Democratic governance of AI and social media: Regulation, multistakeholder governance, collective control of systems and platforms, policy-making, technical implementation of values and constraints.
Civil society organizing in the digital age: Political communication, organizing of protest movements, the digital public sphere.
AI for democratic innovation: Algorithms for participatory democracy (incl. AI supported deliberation, participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies and sortition…)
Digital sovereignty: Privacy and security aspects, infrastructure and cloud services, data sovereignty.

Preliminary Program (Times in CEST)

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