When chatbots perform empathy, people begin to feel that the performance of empathy is empathy enough. The technology challenges us to assert ourselves and our human values, which means that we have to figure out what those values are. news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Deliberative democracy &Citizens’Assembly Cohort present at Global Summit for Democracy at Seoul youtube.com/watch?v=BdwEIX…
Art O'Leary Gillian Dorner Ricard-Nihoul Graham Allen introduced by Iain Walker newDemocracy

We congratulate the 2024 Holberg Laureate Achille Mbembe and the 2024 Nils Klim Prize Laureate Siddharth Sareen!

holbergprize.org/en/news/holber…

Kunnskapsdepartement
Wits University
WiSER
Universitetet i Bergen
Universitetet i Stavanger
Fridtjof Nansen Institute

No ano em que se comemora 50 anos da democracia em Portugal ver um partido de extrema direita ganhar tantos votos nas eleições para o parlamento, mete raiva e profunda tristeza.

Interesting times - in the same day TechCrunch publishes a podcast on how #AI could improve social protection, Amnesty International publishes on how tech can undermine social protection rights buff.ly/43cCgOw buff.ly/3PMdfEv

In a world first, France today made abortion a constitutional right.

The revision, backed by an overwhelming majority of the population, has put conservatives and the far right in a tough spot.

Read the full story: politico.eu/article/france…

Anecdotal, but it's a reminder that we can't fully predict #AI 's impact on democracy. From a #civictech view, perhaps we should be more interested in greenfield #AI applications than in all the boring use cases that just aim to boost uptake in participation. #demopart #delibdem

Fantastic discussions today in Ispra, Italy, scoping and exploring how to ensure deliberative and participatory processes have impact on citizens, policy and wider civil society. Thanks to the European Commission for the invite!

Digital government doesn’t need to be fancy, or about digitalizing sevices that already exist. It can be simple and elegant. #ict4d

Arriba: Así se pronosticó la anomalía de temperatura global para diciembre 2023 con el conjunto de modelos CMIP5 en 2014. El modelo se forzó con el peor escenario de emisiones (RCP8.5) ... Abajo: la realidad de este pasado diciembre de 2023. Vía: Niko Froitzheim

EU_ScienceHub and OECD Governance teams working on participatory and deliberative democracy met over last two days to share knowledge and ideas - lots in common! Jolita Butkeviciene David Goessmann Mauricio Mejia Angela GP @[email protected] Paulo Rosa Ricard-Nihoul Alessandro Bellantoni Elisa Vecchione Ingrid Godkin

📢 OECD Call for Innovative Democratic Practices

Have you worked on a project that has enhanced the voice of citizens into democratic decision-making? We want to hear about it!

Learn more & submit your project 👉 bit.ly/call-democrati…

Deadline: March 5, 2024 📆

This is one of Israel's leading playwright Motti Lerner:

'I can't understand our indifference, our complacency. Do I want to be a citizen of a country that kills 11,000 children in my name? To protect me? Have we gone crazy?'


More Israelis should follow…

We can all play a crucial role in our democracy.

We want civil society to effectively take part in democratic policymaking.

New recommendations will encourage EU countries to make participation processes predictable, accessible, transparent, and inclusive.

Another leap towards evidence-informed policymaking!

European Commission has adopted a Recommendation that leverages years of JRC insights, championing citizen involvement for more trusted, transparent policies➡️
commission.europa.eu/document/fcb62…

#EUdemocracy #JRC #Science4Policy

🌐Great step for EU Democracy!

Stronger policies come from listening to those affected by them. 📢

The new Recommendation on civic participation draws on 20+ years of JRC knowledge on empowering citizen co-creation.

European Commission

👉 Dive in: europa.eu/!HnvjYk

“Evidence-informed policy-making means that public authorities should involve those affected by the rules & decisions being taken & actively gather their views & evidence, throughout the different stages of policy-making processes”
NEW EC RECOMMENDATION
commission.europa.eu/system/files/2…

Strange statement: 'the role of innovation is undisputed'. Really?
Evidence shows that most forms of technological innovation enhance inequity & reduce farming employment.
You cannot solve a problem with itself:
What EU #Agriculture really needs is a new mindset ( #Agroecology ).

At a time when some 16,000 Palestinians have been killed in the last 2 months, two-thirds women and children, & 1.8 million displaced from their homes, NO. I don't think it's a good idea to hand another $10 billion to Israel's right-wing extremist government no strings attached.

The American people are sick of seeing hundreds of billions of their tax dollars going to develop new treatments and cures only to end up paying the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Read my statement on the Administration's latest plan to lower drug prices: