The invisible infrastructures of a new democracy: Deliberative Democracy and the Role of Civic Tech

This talk explores the intersection of deliberative democracy and civic technology, tracing the origins and foundational concepts of the civic tech landscape. It will also examine the key drivers behind the growing significance of these tools and platforms within the deliberative democracy discourse. Drawing on first-hand experience, I'll discuss some of the challenges and opportunities I have faced while developing a data strategy for the upcoming Global Citizen Assembly on Climate. How should we approach this new infrastructure of (a new) democracy?
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/event/ai-civic-technology

Civic Technology is a long established tradition of exploring how computer mediated communications and information could improve community and governance. We are all familiar with online petition, hashtag political campaigns and neighbourhood social media. One of the most established approaches is how these technologies can be used to support community dialogue and deliberative democracy. With the advent of new language technologies “AI” there is considerable interest in what role this will play. In this session we invite two experts, Dr Stuart Lynn, founder of the Scottish company Crowdshy, and Iñaki Goñi, and expert in large scale deliberative democracy.