Decidim Fest 2019

Carried out by:

• Joan Subirats (Deputy Mayor. Councilor of the Department of Culture, Education, Science and Community)
• Marc Serra (Councilor for Participation. City Hall of Barcelona)

• Alejandra González (Subdirectora de Innovación Participativa. Agencia Digital de Innovación Pública de Ciudad de México)

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• Arnau Monterde (Coordinator of Decidim Project. Democratic Innovation - City of Barcelona)

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• Enric Luján (Criptica.org. Universitat de Barcelona)

The ubiquity of information technologies ( smart phones, cameras, sensors...) leads us to an extremely adverse scenario in order to keep parts of our existence private. Do we have to give in completely to this new condition or, on the contrary, do we have to put up with it and give an answer? To what extent? How do we manage our paranoia so as not to incur in a control delirium? Even today, we are still looking for answers that can combine the daily use of electronic devices with the deployment of a certain prudence in interacting with them.

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• Alex Hache (Ciberfeminist)

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Including gender in privacy and security forces us to adopt an intersectional approach - one that relates to the diversity of cultures, social conditions, gender identifications, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, beliefs and other structures of power that can create inequalities for individuals and communities in terms of their access to the tools and practices of privacy and security. The use of ICTs to control, monitor and spying, as well as phenomena such as cyberbullying, hate speech, blackmail and extortion, violate the rights of women and LGTBIQ+ people to be free from any type of violence as well as their right to privacy, public participation, freedom of speech and opinion. In this talk we will discuss some of the characteristic impacts of gender-based violence facilitated by the ICTs, as well as those who carry them out, and will end by focusing on some areas of action to overcome this violence.

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• Proyecto UNA

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The Internet has given those who had less representation in the conventional media the chance to get their message across through other channels, helping the voiceless be able to express themselves and feel as though they are not alone in the world. Support and communication networks have emerged worldwide, which configure a scenario full of possibilities for change: from Indymedia to the recent mobilizations for the environment, the Feminist Strikes or the 15M.

On the other hand, some places in the cyberspace have become hostile and reactionary caves. Under the premises of everything goes, trolling and for the lols, fascism finds new ways of existing and gaining adepts. Over masculized and hateful spaces such as 4Chan, incel.com, or Forocoches, serve wounded identities that, faced with the rise of other types of representations have regrouped and self-affirmed, finding a place to pour a message that seemed to have no place in the mainstream.

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• Ben Cerveny Foundation for Public Code

We believe digital services like Decidim are a new type of public infrastructure that municipalities and other public organizations should learn to build and maintain together collaboratively. As more and more policy is implemented as software, we need to ensure that this code used by public administrations is open, accountable, transparent, and under the control of the governments that implement them. The Foundation for Public Code is helping cities come together around core applications and build the tools and platforms they need for the future using modern development practices and processes.

*This talk will be in English. No simultaneous translation service will be available.

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Lunch

• Iván Vergés (Platoniq)

To install Decidim is a challenge, to apply its use successfully in a community a different one. Our intention is to develop a talk/workshop that provides new tools to newly arrived programmers at Decidim so that they can manipulate and customize the behavior of the tool once it has been successfully installed

• Thais Ruiz de Alda (Digital Fems)
• Alba Hierro (FESC coordinator and Pam a Pam) Pam a Pam: an experience in the creation of a feminist digital community
• Andrés Pereira de Lucena (Proyecto Decidim, aLabs) Architecture, modules and the future of Decidim.
• Diego Romano y Mauro Forte Voluntary working group on blockchain of the city of Naples - Sub-group on votations

*This presentation will be in English. No simultaneous translation service will be available.

• Pedro Álvarez (Populate Tools) Raffling in digital participation platforms

• Alberto Labarga (Universidad Pública de Navarra. Open Knowledge Foundation). Erabaki: citizen participation and social empowerment
• Sílvia Luque (Fundació Ferrer i Guàrdia). Innovative processes in the deepening of democracy. Analysis of participatory experiences promoted by the local administration
• Óscar Pretel Ramírez (Former Advisor of Participation, Transparency and Open Gov of the Zaragoza City Hall). Participatory Budgets in the city of Zaragoza. Impacts, learnings and challenges after the first two editions
• Virgile Deville (Open Source Politics)Participatory budgeting experiences on Decidim : learnings and enhancements



• Paula Forteza Un espacio público digital para la participación ciudadana: el caso del Parlamento francés.
• Yun-Chen Chien. How we failed to make online deliberation tool, experience from sense.tw.
• Noel Hidalgo y Kate Nicholson (Beta NYC) Teaching municipal open data for community empowerment in on-line and off-line environments.
• Sanna Ghotbi. (Digidem Lab) How to increase citizen participation among those with least power. 

*This presentation will be in English. No simultaneous translation service will be available.

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• Michael Donaldson Carbón. Comissionat d’Innovació Digital, Administració Electrònica i Bon Govern

• Alejandra de Diego (Consultant-researcher in citizen participation. Hybridas)
• David Leal García (Coincidimos, Puentes 4D)
• Emmanuel Silva (Consultant in citizen participation for the Town Council of Bunyol. Founder of the association "La Hoya Innova")
• Maria Becedas (ethicoo)
• Pilar Shakti (Puentes 4D)

In the midst of the maelstrom of actions and policies around citizen participation, we want to use this workshop as a moment to allow ourselves to stop, to stop along the way and listen to what is happening to us, through a space of listening and a group process carefully facilitated and in a friendly and safe space: How are the events we are living affecting us? How do we emotionally balance the past and present? What are our needs? What is that which still motivates us and gives us hope for the future? What strategies can we follow to reconnect with one another and with the purpose that unites us as a network and a community?

• Katja Henttonen (Helsinki City Council)

During this October, dozens of thousands of Helsinki residents are casting their votes in the citywide participatory budgeting, which is enabled by Decidim. You are welcome to listen and discuss the practicalities of  Helsinki implementation and especially early observations on how diverse citizens groups have experienced Decidim user interface and the ongoing participatory budgeting process. 

*This talk will be in English. No simultaneous translation service will be available.

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• Liliana Arroyo (Researcher at Institute for Social Innovation at ESADE)
• Antonio Calleja-López (Proyecto Decidim, Investigador IN3/UOC)
• Mara Balestrini (Ideas For Change)

Under the hegemony of data and surveillance capitalism, big corporations and States gather, control, process and use data of millions of people to maximize their profit and power. ¿Are there any alternatives? From open data to data commons, from initiatives that reclaim sovereign technology to those that reclaim more privacy, projects that go from the public sector to social collectives are calling for and experimenting with other models. In this session we explore some of these alternatives, which may open democratic perspectives and possibilities for a datafied society.

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• Alejandra de Diego (Consultant-researcher in citizen participation. Hybridas)
• David Leal García (Coincidimos, Puentes 4D)
• Emmanuel Silva (Consultant in citizen participation for the Town Council of Bunyol. Founder of the association "La Hoya Innova")
• Maria Becedas (ethicoo)
• Pilar Shakti (Puentes 4D)

The session will take the form of a case study, which will be chosen by the group from those proposed by the participants, which we will address in common and so it will be an opportunity to give and receive support through the collective intelligence of the network.

Break

• Mayo Fuster. Dimmons

What does economic sovereignty mean? What does the social economy, commons economy and feminist economy have to say? Which models of governance of economic production promote economic sovereignty? How could Decidim Barcelona contribute?

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• Núria Alonso, Colectic

What is the relationship between digital innovation and the world of the social and solidarity economy? We review some of the collective projects of the SSE in order to prioritise values of social transformation both in the production and dissemination of technology and in the experiences that lead us towards economic democracy.

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• Kasia Odrozek (Mozilla Foundation)

We all know the sins of the tech companies these days: hungry for ad revenue, they exploit our data, lure us into dark UX patterns, rush algorithmic solutions that seem to do more harm than good. And yes, they are trying to fix things but honestly, how much incentive is there to act for public good if you have shareholders breathing down your neck? The ownership structure of tech companies is paramount to product decisions that determine the future of our society. As long as the predominant model of funding tech is driven by Venture Capital, these decisions will be favoring the maximization of profit over any ideals the company’s founders might have had at the start. With activists, researchers and journalists uncovering the root causes of the current tech crisis, it is clear that we need concrete new solutions. The goal of this session is to discuss the emerging alternatives to do business in tech focusing on “ethical” funding and democratic ownership and governance structures that are designed to marry purpose and profit in a sustainable way.

This talk is part of DSIPLAY, a cycle of Digital Social Innovation experiences in Barcelona.

*This talk will be in English. No simultaneous translation service will be available.

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Lunch

• Maite López Sánchez (University of Barcelona) Decidim and AI in the project "Can we make Decidim intelligent?"
• Rosa Borge (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Disruption ot continuity? Analysis of the participation and deliberation in/on the Decidim platform of the Catalan municipalities.
• Pablo Aragón (Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Eurecat) Call For Democracy: The Impact of Rankings in Online Petition Signing.
• Olivier Schulbaum (Goteo) Crowdvocacy. The cost of participation — Amplifying democracy by bridging political participation, digital campaigning platforms, and civic crowdfunding. Crossing communities and technologies between Decidim and Goteo.
• Xabier Barandiaran (UPV-EHU) White paper: Decidim: political and technopolitical networks for participatory democracy



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• Ana Huertas (Facilitator for the transition and permaculture)
• Daniel Vázquez (aLabs)
• Pilar Shakti (Puentes 4D)
• María Becedas (ethicoo)
• David Leal (Coincidimos, Puentes 4D)
• Violeta Cabello (Basque Center for Climate Change)

In this experience based and experimental workshop we want to explore, together with the participants, the question ‘How can participatory social innovation contribute to generating more agile and effective responses to the climatic emergency?’

The session will consist of a brief presentation of some pioneering examples in this regard, followed by a presentation of the participatory process and the live recreation of a simulation of it. Around a case study in the context of Barcelona, ​​and based on a starting analysis of the collective ecological footprint, we will work in groups to generate proposals in different areas of climate impact, which will then be uploaded to a demo in participa .cloud.

• Pablo DeSoto (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil)

The goal of this session is to fast prototype an Augmented Democracy Situation Room in the context of the Barcelona and the Decidim project. The idea is to be theoretically developed and practically tested as a proof of concept through three instances.