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SUMMARY:Citizens\, Political Organisations and Digital Technologies: Disconnection or/and Reconnection?
DESCRIPTION:The Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies and the RELINK2 COST Action organize a collaborative two-day workshop on Citizens\, Political Organisations and Digital Technologies: Disconnection or/and Reconnection?\n\n\nCitizens\, Political Organisations and Digital Technologies:\nDisconnection or/and Reconnection?\n\n\n1-2 October 2025\nCOST Action Relink2 & Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies\nUsquare – 210 Boulevard Général Jacques\, 1050 Ixelles\nAccess via here\n\n\n01/10/2025 – Networking & Stakeholder Roundtables\nAgenda\n\n\n11:00 – 11:30 Arrival and registration\n11:30 – 11:45 Welcome and project presentations\n      Caroline Close (BrIAS)\n      Michal Jacunski (Action Chair Relink2 CA23114)\n11:45 – 12:30 Networking activity (co-designed with Policy Lab)\n      All roundtable participants and panel presenters are kindly invited to attend\n12:30 – 13:30 Lunch\n13:30 – 15:00 Roundtable 1 – Facilitating digital internal participation and deliberation within political actors\n      Chair: Ramón Villaplana (University of Murcia)\n      Participants:\n      Ciarán Cuffe (Co-chair\, European Green Party)\n      Pierre-Yves Leveaux (Communication Adviser\, Party of European Socialists Group)\n      Alessia Gonfroid (Network Officer\, European Network of Political Foundations)\n    \n15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break\n15:30 – 17:00 Roundtable 2 – Sharing best practices on the use of digital tools to engage hard-to-reach groups\n      Chair: Caroline Close\n      Participants:\n      Paulo Rosa (Policy analyst\, European Commission’s Joint Research Centre)\n      Hendrik Nahr (Head of European Affairs\, Make.org)\n      Nadia Tjahja (Coordinator\, Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance)\n      Giulia Sandri (R&D Manager\, European Citizen Action Service)\n    \n17:00 – 18:00 Drink\n\n\n\n02/10/2025 – Academic Workshop\nAgenda\n\n\n8:30 – 9:00 Arrival and registration\n9:00 – 9:10 Welcome\n      Caroline Close (BrIAS)\n      Jasmin Fitzpatrick (Action Vice-Chair Relink2 CA23114)\n9:15 – 10:45 Parallel sessions\n\nPanel session 1: E-government and digital inclusion\nChair: Giulia Sandri (Université libre de Bruxelles)\n     Discussant: Dmytro Khutkyy (University of Tartu) \n\nMansi\, Egla; Bonomi\, Andrea – (Re)Connecting Citizens through Digital Public Services: Examining the Role of E-Government in Political Trust and Democratic Engagement\nKapsa\, Izabella – Reconnecting or Excluding? Online Voting in Participatory Budgeting in Polish Cities\nGueorguieva\, Pétia – Digital local policies and digital needs to improving citizens participation\n\nPanel session 2: Digital technologies and democratic risks\nChair: Gabriela Borz (University of Strathclyde)\n     Discussants: Felix Von Nostitz (ESPOL)\, Dmytro Khutkyy (University of Tartu) \n\nAquida\, Salma – Reactive Democracy and the Illusion of Digital Reconnection in Southeast Asia\nJanušauskienė\, Diana – Digital Exclusion: A Critical Analysis of Underlying Causes\nPandey\, Shipi – Disconnecting Democracy: AI\, Digital Infrastructures\, and the Simulated Inclusion of Marginalised Citizens in India\nCeballos\, Pablo – AI Regulation and Democratic Risks: A Critical Analysis of Human Rights in El Salvador\n\n10:45 – 11:15 Break \nPanel session 3: Political actors and digital tactics\nChair: Emilien Paulis (University of Luxemburg)\n     Discussant: Lucas Kins (Université libre de Bruxelles) \n\nPereira\, André – Digital Youth Engagement and Party Strategies in Portugal’s 2024-2025 Elections\nBarrat\, Jordi – How public institutions supervise political parties when online voting is used for internal decision-making\nDechung\, Zhang – From Tweets to Tactics: Unravelling State-backed Propaganda on Twitter\nSchoeman\, Smilla – How personal data is used by political parties and private companies for election campaigning in South Africa\n\nPanel session 4: Digital Citizenry and Democratic Governance\nChair: Oscar Barberà (University of Valencia)\n     Discussant: Thomas Legein (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) \n\nMompó\, Adrià; Lupato\, Fabio G. – Political parties and their membership: a new role for a declining group in a new environment?\nBoja\, Morena – Digital Technologies and Democratic Governance in the Western Balkans: Threats\, Opportunities\, and Outcomes\nKouiyache\, Omar – Theorizing Reconnection: New Frameworks for Understanding Digital Citizenship\nMartins\, Pedro – Refugee Collective Intelligence in the Digital Age: Interactive Methods and the Role of Policymaker Engagement\n\n12:45 – 14:00 Lunch \n14:00 – 15:00 Plenary discussion\n     Synthesis of insights and identification of research priorities and synergies\n     Chair: Jasmin Fitzpatrick (Action Vice-Chair Relink2 CA23114) \n15:15 – 15:30 Closing remarks and next steps\n     Caroline Close (BrIAS)\n     Jasmin Fitzpatrick (Action Vice-Chair Relink2 CA23114)
URL:https://brias.be/event/citizens-political-organisations-and-digital-technologies-disconnection-or-and-reconnection/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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