Five years later I attended my first face-to-face academic conference and it was like coming home, as it was the AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-24). This edition was held in Buffalo (NY, USA) and it was the first time I presented there work done at the Wikimedia Foundation Research team. In … More International Conference on Web and Social Media 2024
Last week I went to Madrid for III Jornadas de Cultura Libre (3rd edition of the Free Culture Days). This event organized by the Free Knowledge and Culture Office at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos as a meeting point to exchange experiences on issues related to free culture: open publishing (teaching materials, research, etc.), open science, … More III Jornadas de Cultura Libre
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
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
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 CRI Seminar
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
This week we held Decidim Fest 2021. The along of this edition was to discuss the role of technology and democracy in the context of global justice. Given the unfair and undemocratic differences between the Global South and the Global North for vaccine distribution along with the impact of carbon footprint in the ongoing climate … More Decidim Fest 2021
Pablo Aragón 