International Conference
Democracy Lab | International Conference | Speakers | Venues << REGISTER >>
The Commons technology and the right to a democratic city international conference (27-28 May, Museo Reina Sofia) will conclude the week’s activities. Prompting discussion on network democracy, new forms of citizen participation and digital commons in democratic Cities, the conference will showcase the success of the European D-CENT project and look at the future of digital democracy.
The event will gather politicians, activists, researchers, social movements, hackers and Cities to explore innovative methods, digital tools, and policies to strengthen large-scale citizen participation in the political process at European and global level. Participants will debate public policies at the municipal, national and European level to transform democracy and promote transparency to devolve power to citizens and fight concentration of power within public institutions.
By sharing real-world insights from these global experiments and demonstrating the digital tools being used, the event will provide a positive vision of collective intelligence in 21st Century democracy.
Friday May 27th
09.30 Arrival, refreshments, registration
10.00 Welcome
Carlos Prieto del Campo, Director, Museo Reina Sofia Study Centre
10.10 Setting the scene: Technologies of the Democratic City
Francesca Bria, Technology and innovation policy advisor, D-CENT Project Coordinator, Nesta
10.20 Growing collective platforms and digital democracy in Europe
Fabrizio Sestini, Senior Expert, Digital Social Innovation, European Commission DG Connect
10.40 Late Neoliberalism: The Financialization of Cities and new movements for the Right to the City
Introduced by Carlos Prieto del Campo, Director, Museo Reina Sofia Study Centre
Raquel Rolnik, Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of São Paulo
11.00 Empowering citizens: towards new forms of democracy
Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid in conversation with Paul Mason, Journalist, The Guardian
11.45 Coffee break
12.00 Beyond surveillance capitalism: Towards democratic alternatives
Julian Assange, Founder, Wikileaks; Franco Bifo Berardi, writer and philosopher; and Evgeny Morozov Author and editorialist, in conversation with Pablo Soto, Councillor for Citizen Participation, Transparency and Open Government, City of Madrid
13:00 Post-capitalism, digital commons and democratic cities
Chair: Francesca Bria, Technology and innovation policy advisor, D-CENT Project Coordinator, Nesta
Paul Mason, Journalist, The Guardian
Adam Greenfield, Writer and urbanist
Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor of Culture and Media, the New School; founder of Platform Cooperativism
14:30 Lunch, coffee, networking
15:30 Direct Democracy: New opportunities in the Digital Age for reinventing politics
Chair: Bruno Kaufmann, Chairman, Democracy and Election Commission, City of Falun, Sweden
Theo Schiller, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, Institute of Political Science, Philipps University Marburg
Andi Gross, Director, Atelier pour la Démocratie Directe
Andreas Karitzis, Development consultant and independent researcher, HUB
The session will continue with a workshop at the Medialab-Prado after the conference at 18:00.
Please see the Democracy Lab programme for details.
17:30 Closing remarks
Pablo Soto, Councillor for Citizen Participation, Transparency and Open Government, City of Madrid
Francesca Bria, Technology and innovation policy advisor, D-CENT Project Coordinator, Nesta
Saturday May 28th
09:15 Arrival, refreshments, registration
10:00 Welcome to Day 2
Carlos Prieto del Campo, Director, Museo Reina Sofia Study Centre
Francesca Bria, Technology and innovation policy advisor, D-CENT Project Coordinator, Nesta
10:15 City policy-makers roundtable – Building a network of Cities of Change: the new democratic institutionality and the constituent power of the commons
Chairs: Ana Méndez de Andés, Strategic Planning and International Advisor, Madrid City Council and Paolo Gerbaudo, Director, Centre for Digital Culture, King’s College London
Miguel Arana Catania, Participation Project Director, Madrid City Council
Pablo Soto, Councillor for Citizen Participation, Transparency and Open Government, City of Madrid
Xabier Barandiaran, University Researcher and Lecturer, University of the Basque Country
Raúl Royo, Mayoral Advisor, Zaragoza City
Joonas Pekkanen, E-participation Manager, City of Helsinki
Gunnar Grimsson, CEO, Citizens Foundation, Reykjavik City
Teele Pehk, CEO, Estonian Cooperation Assembly
Aik van Eemeren, Chief Technology Office, City of Amsterdam
David Miranda, Journalist, Youth House, Rio de Janeiro
City of San Paulo
12:30 Coffee break
13:00 Freedom and technology self-determination in the era of digital surveillance
Chair: Renata Avila, Human rights lawyer and Global Campaign Manager, Web We Want Foundation
Sergio Amadeu, Professor, Federal University of ABC
Natalie Fenton, Professor and Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of London
Simona Levi, Founder, Xnet
David Miranda, Journalist, Youth House
14:45 Lunch, coffee, networking
16:15 Hactivism for democracy
Chair: Yago Bermejo Abati, Medialab-Prado
Richard Bartlett, Co-founder, Loomio
Jinsun Lee, Founder, WAGL
Audrey Tang, Contributor, g0v.tw
Diego Arredondo Ortiz, Communication and technology, Wikipolítica
17:45 Closing remarks
Francesca Bria, Technology and innovation policy advisor, D-CENT Project Coordinator, Nesta
Carlos Prieto del Campo, Director, Museo Reina Sofia Study Centre
18:00 Networking drinks
19:00 Close
Please note that the programme is subject to change
Commons technology and the right to a democratic city is organised with the support of the following organisations:
@dcentproject | #DCENTMADRID
