LAB Metadecidim. Network research for network democracy

LAB Metadecidim is an open and collaborative research space aimed at addressing key problems for the development of the Decidim platform and network democracy. Networks such as Decidim will transform political life in the coming years in the same way that social networks or mobile applications have transformed our daily lives. This presents new challenges that may be faced by the collective intelligence of communities of experts still to be built.
The Metadecidim LAB’s meetings promote the construction of these communities, and constitute an open and shared research space, in which to weave research networks for network democracy. Therefore, the expert citizens, the university community, its groups and research centers, as well as specialized companies and their social environment, are invited to take part in this project.
Technopolitical challenges
The sessions deal with issues such as digital identity, security and privacy, processes and models of network democracy, technopolitical governance, the usefulness of artificial intelligence for participation, political gamification, or citizen science.
Objectives
The first (and main) objective of the laboratory is to open a space for debate to guide the development of Decidim. A second objective is to build networks and communities of experts interested in contributing to this development in its different faces (privacy, security, ontology, etc.). These contributions can go from the realization of applied or theoretical research around Decidim to the direct contribution to the code in Github, through the incorporation of these experts to the Metadecidim community through the Metadecidim Operational Sessions (SOM). A third objective is to constitute an open space for research and debate on network democracy in a broader sense.
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LAB Metadecidim -Session 12- Decidim.mov: Technologies for citizen participation for social movements and organizations
Laboratorio de Innovación Democrática (Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats Carrer de Sant Adrià, 20, 08030 Barcelona) - Tercera planta, Sala 1
LAB Metadecidim -Session 1- Digital identities, verification and democratic processes
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Campus Poble Nou, edifici Tànger). Sala 52.201
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LAB Metadecidim -Session 13- Decidim.cultura: Citizen participation technologies for cultural management and production.
Laboratorio de Innovación Democrática (Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats Carrer de Sant Adrià, 20, 08030 Barcelona) - Sala 1 (Tercera Planta)
LAB Metadecidim -Sesión 3- Decidim.territori. Investigando modelos de gobernanza democrática para las nuevas escalas de ciudad
Campus UPF (Poble Nou) Edificio Roc Boronat Roc boronat, 138, Barcelona Sala 52.217 (Planta 2)
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LAB Metadecidim -Session 5- Gobernanza democrática de infraestructuras digitales público-comunes
Campus UPF (Poble Nou) Edifici Roc Boronat C/Roc Boronat, 138, Barcelona (Sala 52.217 (Planta 2)
LAB Metadecidim - Session 2. Strategies for political gamification and engagement for democracy
Roc boronat, 138 (Barcelona). Sala 52.217 (Planta 2)
LAB Metadecidim -Sesión 15 - decidim.feminismos: Decidim desde una perspectiva feminista
Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats Carrer de Sant Adrià, 20, 08030 Barcelona Sala 1 (Tercera Planta)
LAB Metadecidim -Session 4- Digital ontologies of participation
Campus UPF (Poble Nou) Edificio Roc Boronat. Roc boronat, 138, Barcelona. Sala 52.217 (Planta 2)
Combinando Inteligencias Colectivas y Artificiales
Fábrica de Creación Fabra y Coats C/Sant Adrià 20, Barcelona Planta 3, Sala 2
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LAB Metadecidim -Sesión 6- Innovación democrática guiada por modelos simulados.
Campus UPF (Poble Nou) Edifici Roc Boronat C/Roc Boronat, 138, Barcelona Sala 52.217 (Planta 2)
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LAB Metadecidim -Sesision 7- Decidim PX (Participant Experience): participatory design of democratic digital platforms
Canodromo – Parc de Recerca Creativa Carrer de Concepción Arenal, 165, 08027 Barcelona Sala Polivalente
LAB Metadecidim -Session 14- decidim.ambCiència: Participation technologies for public policies guided by citizen science
Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats Carrer de Sant Adrià, 20, 08030 Barcelona Sala 1 (Tercera Planta)
LAB Metadecidim -Session 8- Decidim.index: democratic quality indexes for network participation
Laboratorio de Innovación Democrática (Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats Carrer de Sant Adrià, 20, 08030 Barcelona) - Tercera Planta
Lab Metadecidim -Session 10- decidim.viz. Data Visualization for democratic participation
Laboratorio de Innovación Democrática (Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats Carrer de Sant Adrià, 20, 08030 Barcelona) - Tercera planta
Lab Metadecidim -Session 11- decidim.procediment: Administrative-legal validity for digital participation
Laboratorio de Innovación Democrática (Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats Carrer de Sant Adrià, 20, 08030 Barcelona) - tercera planta