Last week I went to Madrid for III Jornadas de Cultura Libre (3rd edition of the Free Culture Days). This event organized by the Free Knowledge and Culture Office at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos as a meeting point to exchange experiences on issues related to free culture: open publishing (teaching materials, research, etc.), open science, … More III Jornadas de Cultura Libre
Today, the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction journal published our article “Configurations of Digital Participatory Budgeting”. The main goal of this study with Victoria Palacin (University of Helsinki; University of Toronto), Samantha McDonald (University of California Irvine) and Matti Nelimarkka (University of Helsinki; Aalto University) was to characterize the implications of configurations for digital participatory … More ACM TOCHI: Configurations of Digital Participatory Budgeting
This week our article “A Comparative Study of Reference Reliability in Multiple Language Editions of Wikipedia” was presented in the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2023). This study expands a recent longitudinal assessment of reference quality on English Wikipedia by examining the reliability of references in over 300 language editions of … More Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2023
This week we had Decidim Fest 2023 at Canòdrom. For this edition, we (the organizing committee) proposed the focus on democracy, technology and ̶a̶r̶t̶i̶f̶i̶c̶i̶a̶l̶collective intelligence, as we wanted to reflect on to what extent AI is a computationally augmented version of human intelligence, extracted from sources of common and open knowledge that were produced in a … More Decidim Fest 2023
After some days in Vienna, I went to Tübingen for participating in the Weaponization of Knowledge Conference. This event was organized by the University of Tübingen and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill to bring together scholars interested in the negative consequences associated with the (mis)use of knowledge. Participants came from a wide … More The Weaponization of Knowledge Conference
This week I went to Vienna to attend the Digital Humanism Summit on AI and Democratic Sustainability. The goal of this summit was to identify possible responses to the worrisome concerns of generative AI for open democratic socities, but also the opportunities for meeting it through collective action such as policy recommendations. This was a … More Digital Humanism Summit
Yesterday we hosted Wiki Workshop 2023. This event brings together researchers exploring all aspects of Wikimedia projects. To celebrate the 10th edition of the workshop some changes were made, e.g., it took place as a standalone online event (not co-located with an academic conference) and submissions were 2-page extended abstracts in order to foster the … More Wiki Workshop 2023
Last week I gave a seminar at the Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IESA-CSIC). This institute, located in Córdoba, focuses on combining scientific excellence with a commitment to contribute to the improvement of social reality. Sebastian Rinken contacted me to invite me to present the opportunities offered by the … More IESA CSIC seminar
Decidim Fest 2022 was held at Canòdrom this week. In this edition we focused on the Future of the Internet to discuss the democratic challenges of the digital society. In addition, Decidim Fest 2022 was included in the third edition of Biennial of Thought, which is held this week to reclaim public space and transform … More Decidim Fest 2022
This week I went to Germany to attend the Dagstuhl Seminar on Challenges and Opportunities of Democracy in the Digital Society. Dagstuhl Seminars are invite only events organized by Schloss Dagstuhl (Leibniz Center for Informatics) that bring together leading researchers and practicioners in specific fields of computer science. I was invited by the organizers: to … More Dagstuhl Seminar
Pablo Aragón 