Issue Identification

Find controversial points of interest to start the discussion.

Online Deliberation

Exchange arguments, spark ideas and moderate the dialogue.

Document composition

Generate law proposals based on deliberation results.

Digital Deliberative Democracy

This project will investigate how technology-supported, large-scale crowd computing approaches can be used to strengthen the functions of the Swiss consultation and popular initiative procedures.

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Partners

The Digital Deliberative Democracy Project (D3-Project) involves partners from University of Zurich (Department of Informatics, Centre for Legislative Studies, Department of Political Science) and University of Queensland (School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering). It is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Current news

Adaptive Questionnaires Paper

on 18. September 2024

Publication in ECML/PKDD Conference We’re excited to announce that our submission was accepted as a paper in the European Conference for Machine Learning (ECML) . Fynn Bachmann’s work on “Fast and Adaptive Questionnaires for Voting Advice Applications ” aims at making data collection and political surveys more effective by using item response theory and computerised adaptive testing.

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European Digital Democracy Network

on 12. April 2024

1st Conference of the European Network for Digital Democracy Digital democracy is a growing field of research in disciplines such as political science, social choice theory, and computer science. This month, the 1st Conference of the European Network for Digital Democracy (in short: EDDY) was organized in Rotterdam. We were excited to be part of this program with three contributions:

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Digital Democracy Workshop

on 2. November 2023

Digital Democracy Workshop 2023 After last year’s participation, we joined this year’s edition of the Digital Democracy Workshop again with two speakers: Cristina Sarasua and Catarina Pereira. After the welcoming introduction from Fabrizio Gilardi and Karsten Donnay, Cristina Sarasua opened the first panel of the event with her talk about “RfC Deliberative Quality Across Wikimedia Projects: Comparing English Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, and Meta”.

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Digital Democracy Workshop

on 30. October 2022

Digital Democracy Workshop 2022 This workshop was co-organized by the Democracy Community of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) and the Digital Democracy Lab (Digdemlab) at the University of Zurich. It aimed at facilitating exchange among scholars from different substantive fields working on these topics. We were particularly interested in topics such as political communication and public opinion, e-government and public administration, AI and governance, civic tech and political participation, the regulation of tech platforms, and state repression and surveillance, among others.

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