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Democracy Lab: 23–27 May 2016, Medialab-Prado Madrid
D-CENT International Conference: 27-28 May 2016, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid
The Democratic Cities – Commons technology and the right to a democratic city event is fast approaching. The event will take place from the 23–28 May in Madrid, Spain. You still have time to register!
The event will be a unique opportunity to discuss network democracy, new forms of citizen participation, digital tools for democratic participation and urban commons for democratic cities. We expect +400 academic, activists, politicians and hackers to participate.
Read our updates, get inspired and join us. The full programme and speakers introductions are available at Democratic-cities.cc
The event is organised by D-CENT, Nesta, Medialab-Prado, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, City of Madrid, City of Barcelona, and supported by Labodemo and redecentralize.
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Democracy Lab 23–27 May
Explore tools, processes and strategies for democratic participation
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The Democratic Cities – Commons technology and the right to a democratic city event begins with a five-day Democracy Lab offering a wide range of hands-on trainings, workshops, hackathons and a two-day unconference with presentations selected via Open Call.
D-CENT project will host several sessions showcasing open source and privacy-aware Digital Democracy tools that have been piloted and tested across Europe with political parties. The two-day unconference will provide an open space for initiatives developing privacy-aware, open source, and distributed technologies to showcase their work, share demos, debate and plan future development.
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International Conference 27–28 May
Technologies of the Democratic City
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D-CENT is the biggest European project on direct democracy and citizen engagement. The International Conference in Madrid, organised as part of the Democratic Cities – Commons technology and the right to a democratic city event taking place from the 23–28 May, will conclude the week’s activities, and showcase the results of the D-CENT project.
The conference is a unique chance to hear a wide range of thought leaders, policy-makers, urban planners, philosophers, activists and academics discussing the future of citizen led movements and democratic technology. View the full programme and register!
Speakers include:
Julian Assange, Wikileaks | Francesca Bria, D-CENT | Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission | Raquel Rolnik, University of São Paulo | Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid | Paul Mason, The Guardian | Evgeny Morozov, author and editorialist | Francesco “Bifo” Berardi, writer and philosopher | Carlos Prieto del Campo, Museo Reina Sofia | Renata Avila, Web We Want Foundation | Pablo Soto, Madrid City Council | Sergio Amadeu de Silveira, Professor, Federal University of ABC I Adam Greenfield, writer and urbanist I and many more...
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