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SUMMARY:ITeG-Lecture: "Digital revolution: danger and opportunities for dem
 ocracy"
DESCRIPTION:In the ITeG lecture series "Digital Society - a Design Challeng
 e", Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing will provide insights on “Digital revolution: da
 nger and opportunities for democracy” on January 27, 2021. He is Professor 
 of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and
  Political Sciences and affiliate of the Computer Science Department at ETH
  Zurich.\n\n\n\nSummary of his presentation:\n\nThe digital revolution has 
 come with many disruptive innovations, and it often seems that the ambition
  of many tech leaders has been nothing less than to reinvent the world from
  scratch. In this connection, “democracy” has often been framed as “outdate
 d technology”, and IT companies have worked on new “operating systems” for 
 society, and deployed them in “smart cities” and “smart nations”. The const
 itutional state and human rights were questioned as well, sometimes in atte
 mpts to optimize the world and make it more sustainable in a data-driven an
 d AI-controlled way. However, people have become increasingly concerned of 
 the emerging technological totalitarianism. They expect a participatory fra
 mework, which allows them to co-create their future and environment. Moreov
 er, the centralized control paradigm has a number of flaws. First, it assum
 es that everything, which is important, can be measured, while consciousnes
 s, human dignity and love, which are so crucial for being human, cannot be 
 captured well by data. Second, an optimization approach needs to choose a g
 oal function, but submitting the entire world to a one-dimensional utilitar
 ian approach will not serve it well, due to its multi-dimensionality and co
 mplexity, and it will lead to the neglection of other goals. Instead, a co-
 evolutionary approach to a more sustainable and more resilient society is n
 eeded. The capacity to innovate is crucial for this, and this requires dive
 rsity and creative freedoms. Those need to be protected by human rights, as
  democracies do it. However, democracy needs to be digitally upgraded, to b
 e more adaptive and more effective. For example, it is crucial to support t
 he formation of collective intelligence. This could be done by platforms fo
 r massive open online deliberation (MOODs), but also by new participatory f
 ormats such as City Olympics, which will unleash the ideas of many minds an
 d mobilize the talent and engagement of the people.\n\n\n\nThe lectures tak
 e place online (via Zoom). To join the Zoom Meeting, please find the Zoom L
 ink and Meeting ID on the following website: www.uni-kassel.de/go/iteg-lect
 ures
LOCATION:Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG), University o
 f Kassel
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DTSTART:20210127T170000Z
DTEND:20210127T190000Z
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