When? Wednesday, January 15, 2025
What time? 17:00 – 19.30
How? Interactive workshop in 4 rounds
Who? Global Digi Innovation Experts meet / exchange with Vienna Researchers and Innovators
For Whom? Decision makers, civil society activists, political reps / elected, social media content creators, educators, and all concerned and people who are ready to act
Where? Albert Schweitzer Haus, Schwarzspanierstraße 13, 1090 Wien
Gelebte Demokratie in der digitalisierten Realität – Ist das überhaupt möglich?
Ein Einblick der global größten Herausforderungen & kreativer Lösungsansätze für eine digitale Demokratie.
Im Austausch mit Expert:innen aus 20 verschiedenen Ländern und Kontinenten & Best of Vienna Digital Tech R&D in einem interaktiven Workshop-Format.
Diese Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt.
Dazu brauchen wir EUCH:
Entscheidungsträger, Aktivisten der Zivilgesellschaft, politische Vertreter / Gewählte, Content Creator, Pädagogen und alle Betroffenen, die bereit sind zu handeln.
Das interaktive Eventformat bedingt eine begrenzte Teilnehmer:innen-Anzahl – meldet euch bald an, wir freuen uns auf euch!
In einer Bestätigungsmail erhaltet ihr alle Details zum Veranstaltungsort und Format.
Speakers
Lernt hier die internationalen Speaker:innen kennen
SPEAKERS from the WSA Global Expert Community
AFRICA
Ms. Dorothy Gordon, ICT4Development Consultant / UNESCO, Ghana, | Mr. Madara Ogot, CEO UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networks, University of Nairobi, Kenya | Mr. Tomi Davies, African Business Angel Network (ABAN), Nigeria |
ARAB REGION
Mr. Ali Hilli, Marketing & Communications Director, Miswag, Iraq | Ms. Batoul Husseini, Regional Executive Director, Government Affairs, SAP, Syria/Turkey/UAE | Ms. Hania Dimassi, UN ESCWA Economic & Social Commission Western Asia, Jordan | Ms. Malak Yacout, Founder, The Volunteer Circle, Lebanon |
ASIA
Mr. Osama Manzar, CEO and Founder Digital Empowerment Foundation, India | Mr. Ryan Gerseva, Founder & CEO, Virtualahan, Philippines | Mr. Agha Hamza, Country Head, Hello Tomorrow Pakistan Hub, Pakistan | Mr. Witman Hung, CEO, Shenzhen Qianhai Authority, Hongkong/ China |
AMERICAS
Mr. Rodrigo Assumpcao, President & CEO, Dataprev – Government of Brazil, Brazil | Mr. Rudy Laddaga, Founder & CEO, Gnius Club, Mexico, | Ms. Sherry Kennedy, Comm Director, Sustainable Energy for All, Canada | | Mr. Sachi Wickramage, CEO, 4T Global, Australia | Ms. Ana Alvarez Monge, Founder & CEO Migrapreneur / Bureaucrazy, Costa Rica |
EUROPE
Ms. Olga Rataj, Manager, Global Cleantech Innovation Programme, UNIDO, Poland | Ms. Lilit Shakhulyan, Co-Founder, Safe YOU, Armenia | Ms. Tanja Wehsely, CEO, Volkshilfe Wien, Austria | Ms. Odeta Iseviciute, COO, NeurochainAI, Lithuania | Ms. Reluca Preluca, Partner & Senior, Consultant la fonduri-structurale.ro, Romania | Mr. Martin Vitek, Chairman, Foundation for Entrepreneurship Education, Czech Republic | Mr. Richard Fekete, Specialist for Social Banking ERSTE Group, Chairman, Akadémia sociálnej ekonomiky, o.z. / Academy of Social Economy, Slovakia
VIENNA Digital Humanism Research: Innovations & Creative Solutions
Innovative Vienna RTD Projects selected from the Program on Digital Humanism of the WWTF-Vienna Science and Technology Fund will present their innovations in a short solutions pitch and poster presentation in response to the country statements from international digital experts from up to 20 UN member states. Researchers are asked to consider themselves as solution providers for a specific problematic of digital democracy. Their pitch-presentations of Innovative RTD Projects are a central part of the event. A print handout/ booklet is being published before the event to be shared with registered participants in advance for preparation of discussion and cooperation.
The VIENNA Researchers & Innovators
Mr. Jan Maly Ass. Professor, Institute for Data, Process & Knowledge Management, University of Economics & Business
Citizen-centered democratic innovation: Understanding citizen preferences for participatory budgeting algorithms
Mr. Hossein Kermani, PostDoc, Political Communication Research Group of the University of Vienna
Beyond computational propaganda and bot activism: Investigating social media suppression in authoritarian regimes
Ms. Laura Koesten, PostDoc, Data Visualisiation, Computer Science University of Vienna
Talking charts
Ms. Eugenia Stamboliev, Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna
Decentralised Trust in Digitial Societies
Ms. Lisette Espin-Noboa, Postdoc, Complexity Science Hub. Vienna
Humanized Algorithms: Identifying and Mitigating Algorithmic Biases in Social Networks
Mr. Sebastian Tschiatschek, Assoc.Professor, Machine Learning, University of Vienna
Interpretability and Explainability as Drivers to Democracy
Background on ProEuropeanValuesAT: future of democracy, enabled rights, strong civil society
ProEuropeanValuesAT is an initiative of five civil society organizations in Austria which has received EUR 5 Mio. from the European Union Program on Citizenship, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV)
WHAT GOALS?
Given the challenges of the digital age and the shifting political climate, the initiative “ProEuropeanValuesAT” addresses the urgent need to strengthen
- the protection, promotion, and awareness of European values,
- fundamental rights and the rule of law in Austria and Europe
- forward-looking, participatory democratic practices
through a strong and creative civil society.
WHAT MEANS?
ProEuropeanValuesAT expands the space for civil society in Austria. It strengthens civil society organizations (CSOs) and their creative activities in two ways:
- through capacity building and networking, workshops, fairs, knowhow sessions, mentoring
- through full funding with direct grants to proposed activities selected by an independent jury; grant sizes depend on proposals and run between € 5.000 and € 50.000.
WHAT MOTIVATION?
The future of democracy will be decided largely in cyberspace, in the highly fragmented digital public sphere. A lot depends on how democratic values are emphasized, respected and lived. Social media are powerful forces in shaping societies worldwide in ways that often call into question the democratic functioning of society and the rule of law. Activist organizations counter the highly emotional, aggressive moods in information space.
WHAT NEED?
Austrian civil society organizations face major challenges in fulfilling their mandates and executing important tasks. Many are finding it increasingly difficult to secure the necessary funding to develop and carry out their activities independently and effectively. The COVID pandemic, inflation rates and the freezing/redistribution of public funding are eroding the basis for civil society organizations.
FOR WHOM?
ProEuropeanValuesAT supports small and grassroots organizations, youth organizations in digital space, women’s rights groups, NGOs working with migrants and marginalized groups, as well as rural and remote civil society organizations.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | 17:00 – 19.30 | Interactive workshop in 4 rounds |
CONSORTIUM
ProEuropeanValuesAT is organized by a consortium of five partners:
Project Concept and Lead: Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck | President, ICNM | www.icnm.net | Rochusgasse 19, A5020 Salzburg
Project start: 1. Dec. 2024 | Project duration: 42 months | Three capacity building and funding cycles in 2025, 2026, 2027