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The European Digital DemocracY network (EDDY) aims to bring together academics and practitioners actively working on or with digital democracy, to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange. After a very successful first edition, EDDY is proud to announce its second in-person conference, ‘Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice’ (EDDY-2025), taking place at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, on June 12-13, 2025. 

The event will feature contributed talks through an open call (see below), a range of social and interactive sessions, and a variety of academic and non-academic keynote speakers: Manon Berriche (Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Sciences at MédiaLab SciencesPo Paris), Umberto Grandi (Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toulouse), Carolina Romero Cruz (Co-Founder and Project Manager at Decidim), and Simone Vannuccini (Junior Professor of Economics at Université Côte d’Azur).

We are opening two tracks for selected contributions at the conference: the talks track and the demos track. If you are an academic or a practitioner whose work is related to digital democracy, we invite you to create an account and submit a one-page description/abstract on this page, by March 9th 2025 (AoE). You can submit to either of our tracks:

• Talks track. Selected talks will be given 15-20 minutes presentation time in the program, depending on the number of high quality submissions. There will be no proceedings associated with the conference, so you are welcome to submit work that has been previously published by other conferences, journals, and so on.
   
• Demos track. Selected demos will take place in parallel during a dedicated session, where you will be given access to a table and internet connection (‘bring your own laptop’ setup). Participants of the conference will be able to freely roam and join the different demos.

We welcome contributions from both academics and practitioners on any of the following topics, in relation to digital democracy: online deliberation, liquid democracy, the public sphere, apps and tools for online decision-making, machine learning, crowdsourcing, the digital divide, participatory budgeting, computational social choice, digital identities, social media, popular will, cryptocurrencies & blockchain, secrecy vs. publicity of votes and opinions. 

We particularly welcome submissions by students and early career scholars or practitioners.

Contributions will be selected on the basis of their connection to EDDY’s goals, with an eye toward the conference’s multi-, cross-disciplinary target audience and the diversity of projects and contributors. Depending on the number of submissions, some contributions may be selected for a poster presentation instead. 
Notification of acceptance is expected by March 21^st, 2025.

This event is made possible thanks to the support and funding of the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and is organized in partnership with the AI Lab for Human and Social Sciences.

For more information, see the conference webpage or write to contact@eddy-network.eu to contact any of EDDY’s core committee members: Jan Maly (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business), Arianna Novaro (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University), and Frederik Van De Putte (Erasmus University Rotterdam).

9:00 – 9:30. Welcome Coffee

9:30 – 9:45. Opening Remarks

Violaine Sebillotte 
Vice President for Research, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University

Stéphane Zuber
Director, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne

Thomas Renault
Head, AI Lab for Human and Social Sciences

9:45 – 11:00. Session 1:  AI, Ethics and Society

9:45 – 10:15. Roland Rathelot (ENSAE, IP Paris, CREST)
How Can AI Improve Search and Matching? Evidence from 59 Million Personalized Job Recommendations

10:15 – 10:45. Valentin Pelloin (INA)
Automatic Classification of News Subjects in Broadcast News: Application to Gender Bias Representation Analysis

10:45 – 11:00. Arianna Novaro (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES)
Flash talk: Repeated Fair Allocation of Indivisible Items

11:00 – 11:30. Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30. Keynote Lecture

Anton Korinek (University of Virginia)
Policy Challenges in the Age of AI

12:30 – 14:00. Lunch, 2nd Floor

14:00 – 14:15. Afternoon Introduction

Bastien Blain, Joëlle Farchy (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES)
Flash talk: AI and compensation of rights holders

14:15 – 15:30. Session 2: AI and Text

14:15 – 14:45. Sergio Galetta (ETH Zürich)
BallotBot: Can Chatbots Strengthen Direct Democracy?

14:45 – 15:15. Thomas Renault (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES)
Community-Based Fact-Checking Reduces the Spread of Misleading Posts on Social Media

15:15 – 15:30. Léo Dumont (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, PIREH, CRH19)
Flash talk: Text Classification on Historical Newspapers: How the 1848 June Days Uprising Was Covered in the Press

15:30 – 16:00. Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:15. Session 3: AI and Images

16:00 – 16:30. Mathieu Couttenier (ENS de Lyon, CERGIC)
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mines in Africa: Where, When, and Why?

16:30 – 17:00. Guilia Caprini (University of Oxford)
Visual Bias

17:00 – 17:15. Clément Gorin (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES)
Flash talk: State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings

17:15 – 17:30. Closing Remarks

Jean-François Caulier
Deputy Vice President for Strategy and Digital Innovations, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University