This week we had Decidim Fest 2023 at Canòdrom. For this edition, we (the organizing committee) proposed the focus on democracy, technology and ̶a̶r̶t̶i̶f̶i̶c̶i̶a̶l̶collective intelligence, as we wanted to reflect on to what extent AI is a computationally augmented version of human intelligence, extracted from sources of common and open knowledge that were produced in a … More Decidim Fest 2023
After some days in Vienna, I went to Tübingen for participating in the Weaponization of Knowledge Conference. This event was organized by the University of Tübingen and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill to bring together scholars interested in the negative consequences associated with the (mis)use of knowledge. Participants came from a wide … More The Weaponization of Knowledge Conference
This week I went to Vienna to attend the Digital Humanism Summit on AI and Democratic Sustainability. The goal of this summit was to identify possible responses to the worrisome concerns of generative AI for open democratic socities, but also the opportunities for meeting it through collective action such as policy recommendations. This was a … More Digital Humanism Summit
Yesterday we hosted Wiki Workshop 2023. This event brings together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects. To celebrate the 10th edition of the workshop some changes were made, e.g., it took place as a standalone online event (not co-located with an academic conference) and submissions were 2-page extended abstracts in order to foster the … More Wiki Workshop 2023
Last week I gave a seminar at the Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IESA-CSIC). This institute, located in Córdoba, focuses on combining scientific excellence with a commitment to contribute to the improvement of social reality. Sebastian Rinken contacted me to invite me to present the opportunities offered by the … More IESA CSIC Seminar
Decidim Fest 2022 was held at Canòdrom this week. In this edition we focused on the Future of the Internet to discuss the democratic challenges of the digital society. In addition, Decidim Fest 2022 was included in the third edition of Biennial of Thought, which is held this week to reclaim public space and transform … More Decidim Fest 2022
This week I went to Germany to attend the Dagstuhl Seminar on Challenges and Opportunities of Democracy in the Digital Society. Dagstuhl Seminars are invite only events organized by Schloss Dagstuhl (Leibniz Center for Informatics) that bring together leading researchers and practicioners in specific fields of computer science. I was invited by the organizers: to … More Dagstuhl Seminar
Last week, we published our article Civic Code for Social Change: Lessons in Civic Tech Grassroots for Software Engineers in IEEE Software. The article builds on previous work on Code For Ireland by Antti Knutas, Victoria Palacin, Giovanni Maccani and Markus Helfert, and incorporates visions by Annika Wolff, Lukas Mocek and myself. In particular, we … More IEEE Software: Civic Code for Social Change
The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) held today its annual symposium at Canòdrom. This was the first face-to-face meeting of this organization since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and gathered members of different national OKFN chapters together with international and local scholars and practitioners interested in open knowledge. Renata Ávila, former collaborator at D-CENT and … More Open Knowledge Symposium
Yesterday I had the pleasure to give a seminar at the Learning Planet Institute (fka. Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity or CRI). This institution belongs to the University of Paris and was created in 2016 to co-constructing and sharing new ways of learning, teaching, conducting research and mobilizing collective intelligence in the fields of life, … More Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity Seminar
Pablo Aragón 