IFDaD 2020
International Forum on Digital and Democracy. Towards A Sustainable Evolution 2020

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 16 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 9 papers were accepted for this volume, 6 as regular papers and 3 as short papers.

Invited Talk

• Rethinking Democracy in the “Pandemic Society” A Journey in Search of the Governance with, of and by AI 1-13
  Gianluca Misuraca

TRACK 1: Democracy and political decision

• The Challenges of Urban Data Ethics: Big Data and Intelligent Systems to Support Decision 14-23
  Larissa Galdino de Magalhães Santos,
• Artificial Intelligence Research for Fighting Political Polarisation: A Research Agenda 24-33
  Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Stefano Quintarelli

TRACK 2: Social involvement and participation

• Artificial Intelligence Against Disinformation: The FANDANGO Practical Case (short paper) 34-42
  Francesco Saverio Nucci, Silvia Boi, Massimo Magaldi
• Democracy in the Digital Revolution (short paper) 43-50
  Giorgio De Michelis

TRACK 3 - Participation and functioning of parties

• Digital Social Contracts: A Foundation for an Egalitarian and Just Digital Society 51-60
  Nimrod Talmon, Ehud Shapiro, Gal Shahaf, Luca Cardelli, Liav Orgad
• A Blockchain-driven E-participation for Substantial Democracy 61-70
  Nadia Maccabiani

TRACK 4: Information access and integrity

• Access to Scientific Information and Knowledge: A Matter of Democracy 71-82
  Ludovica Paseri
• Legal Knowledge Representation in the Domain of Private International Law? 83-92
  Giuseppe Contissa, Galileo Sartor

Poster presentation

• “Algocracy”: The Decline of Representative Democracy (short paper)
  Alessandro Fricano