2018 Day One

New Approaches to Democracy in the Digital Age

  • Location

    Civic Hall

  • Time

    June 7, 2018 - 2:30 pm

  • Description

    This workshop will delve into current experiments in 21st century digital democracy, including pioneering practices being developed by the g0v civic hacking community in Taiwan (including a hands-on look at how they use virtual reality as part of deliberative democracy), Madrid’s innovative efforts to foster more citizen participation, and how crowd-understanding platforms like Pol.is are enabling a new kind of community sense-making.