This week, the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’24) was held in the Barcelona International Convention Center. KDD is the premier international conference for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to discuss the latest advancements and applications in the field. I had the privilege to contribute … More KDD 2024
Today, the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction journal published our article “Configurations of Digital Participatory Budgeting”. The main goal of this study with Victoria Palacin (University of Helsinki; University of Toronto), Samantha McDonald (University of California Irvine) and Matti Nelimarkka (University of Helsinki; Aalto University) was to characterize the implications of configurations for digital participatory … More ACM TOCHI: Configurations of Digital Participatory Budgeting
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
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
The ICT4Good/Asia Workshop was held today. This event, organized in collaboration with NUS Communications and New Media and NUS CivicTech Lab, brought together researchers and practitioners pursuing ICT4Good in Asia to discuss the interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral development of the field. I had the honour to give a keynote on Decidim: Technopolitical Networks for Participatory Democracy … More ICT4Good Asia workshop
Yesterday, the British Journal of Educational Technology published our journal article “Emergency education effects on teacher abilities and motivation to use digital technologies”. This work includes a study to examine how teacher motivation and abilities related to the use of digital technologies for teaching have changed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The methodology … More BJET: Emergency education effects on teacher abilities and motivation to use digital technologies
It has been almost 10 years since I arrived in Barcelona for working as a research engineer at Fundació Barcelona Media (research scientist at Eurecat after a few years). Many things have happened since then: discovering that social media analysis techniques could help to understand social and political phenomena, co-founding the DatAnalysis15M research network, contributing … More Research Scientist position at Wikimedia Foundation
Last week we held a new edition of Decidim Fest. After the successful 2019 edition, that was preceded by the original Metadecidim Annual Conferences (Jornades Anuals Metadecidim), this year we had to reinvent our community meeting given the restrictions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The major change was that the conference was completely online. As … More Decidim Fest 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
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
Pablo Aragón 