Events

Conference "Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice"

The  European Digital DemocracY (EDDY) network is excited to organise its second in-person conference titled "Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice".

Date
June 12-13, 2025

Venue
Maison des Sciences Économiques, 106-112 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Conference room, 6th floor

  • Registration open!

    Dear all, 

    We are delighted to announce that registration to the 2nd edition of our conference "Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice" (EDDY-2025), taking place on June 12th and 13th in Paris and organized by the EDDY network, is now officially open for general participants. You can find here below all the relevant information to register. 

    Please note that registration is free but mandatory

    Should you have any questions, please write to both me (<arianna.novaro@univ-paris1.fr>) and Frederik Van De Putte (<vandeputte@esphil.eur.nl>) to maximise your chances of a quick reply. :-)


    When is the deadline for registration?
    On Friday May 30th, 2025, or upon reaching the maximum capacity limit.

    What is included in the registration?
    Access to the EDDY-2025 conference for both days (June 12 and 13), coffee breaks, and the welcome cocktail on June 12. 
    Please note that the lunches for both days (June 12 and 13) are not included
    There are however numerous restaurants and bistrots around the venue where you will be able to get lunch easily.

    How can I register? 
    You have to fill the form on the registration page of the EDDY-2025 website (you will be asked to create or login with a SciencesConf account). In order to have as accurate an estimate as possible for the catering service, to avoid food waste, we kindly ask you to let us know on which days you plan to attend.
    You can also let us know if you have any kind of needs that we should take into account, e.g., regarding dietary restrictions.
    Note that the welcome cocktail will be vegetarian.

    Looking forward to seeing many of you at the conference! 

    All the best,
    Arianna & Frederik, on behalf of the EDDY core committee

Kick-off conference!

We are excited to organise the kick-off for the AI Lab,  dedicated to exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, human behaviour, and social dynamics. 

Date
Friday, November 15, 2024

Venue
Maison des Sciences Économiques, 106-112 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris
Conference room, 6th floor

  • Program

    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 BlainJoëlle 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