Pablo Aragón

Technopolitics in Urban Regeneration Conference

September 14, 2020

Technopolitics in Urban Regeneration conference (TUR’20) is a two-week event consisting of an international conference and a summer school. The goal of the event is to explore co-creation of livable and sustainable cities, presenting an opportunity to share the work of architectural practices and researchers on participatory experiences and methodologies. In particular, this edition of … More Technopolitics in Urban Regeneration Conference

GovTech Week

September 10, 2020

GovTech Lab Lithuania is organizing this week the GovTech Week_ online conference. The purpose of this event is to bring global policy and technology experts, startup founders and investors together to discuss the latest trends in the public sector. Topics vary from day to day: Delivering the European Green Deal (Monday) Rethinking public services (Tuesday) … More GovTech Week

MediaFutures: Kick off meeting

September 9, 2020

From February 7 to 8, we have held the kick-off meeting of Mediafutures, a new H2020 research project in which we we will set up a virtual, European data innovation hub, including funding, mentoring and support for entrepreneurial and creative projects to reshape the media value chain through responsible, innovative uses of data. Our role … More MediaFutures: Kick off meeting

NGI Forward: Advisory Board meeting

July 22, 2020

Today we had the advisory board inaugural meeting of NGI FORWARD, an H2020 project to promote the Next Generation Internet as the key European entity and space for radical new thinking on the future internet. My contribution as an advisor is to provide strategic guidance throughout the project, based on my experience in projects like … More NGI Forward: Advisory Board meeting

DECODE: Final Review Meeting

February 20, 2020

Today we have concluded the work we started in January 2017 when launching the DECODE project. DECODE is an H2020 research project to increase digital sovereignty of European citizens by enabling them to produce, access and control their data and exchange contextualized information in real-time, and in a confidential, and scalable manner. We presented at … More DECODE: Final Review Meeting

PhD Defence

November 27, 2019

In October 2015 I enrolled in the PhD programme in Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra to investigate the role of digital technologies for facilitating democratic participatory processes. This project, supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the María de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme (MDM-2015-0502), did not emerged from … More PhD Defence

DECODE: Final symposium

November 11, 2019

Last week we held the final symposium of the DECODE project: Our Data, Our Future: Radical Tech for a Democratic Digital Society. The event, held at Nuvola Lavazza in Turin, gathered policy-makers, researchers, hackers, artists and journalists for two days of talks, panels and tech workshops. The venue also included a main hall with exhibitors … More DECODE: Final symposium

Decidim Fest 2019

November 4, 2019

Since the very first year the Decidim project was launched (2016), we have been helding the Metadecidim Annual Conference (Jornades Anuals Metadecidim) as a space for the community to gather, to reflect on the status of the project and to discuss new challenges. This year, the Decidim team decided to transition to a new model … More Decidim Fest 2019

DECODE: IoT Pilot Wrap up

October 3, 2019

Derived from: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/en/blog/final-session-of-the-decode-pilot-project-citizen-science-data-governance-iot On 30 September, the Catalan Institute of Advanced Architecture hosted the final session of the pilot project Citizen Science Data Governance (IoT), an initiative that forms part of the DECODE project. This pilot project consisted of installing environmental sensors in homes in the community to measure noise and pollution levels. Before the sensors … More DECODE: IoT Pilot Wrap up

Euro CSS 2019

September 8, 2019

I went this week to Zurich to attend the 3rd edition of the European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science. This was the final edition of the series and focused on polarization and radicalization. In particular, the symposium chairs designed an inspiring program of workshops, tutorials, keynotes, talks and posters discuss how … More Euro CSS 2019