• Big Data, platforms, AI: is it true that digital technology can be redirected to support democracy? Is the tilt of digital technology to suit the concentration of knowledge and wealth truly reversible? If so, how?
• Why did the democratic revolts of the past decade all over the world fail and often lead to authoritarian turns? And now?
• Are there systematic signs of democratic reaction to the authoritarian challenge? Which collective actions and social conflicts could arise against the current concentration of wealth and power?
• Can democracy respond to the growing complexity and uncertainty to which authoritarianism offers an answer—and with what tools? How can the functions of the State and its modus operandi vis a vis capitalist firms and social enterprises be adjusted?
• How can the mechanisms of decision-making, participation and representation be changed to rebuild people’s trust in democratic institutions? What do existing experiments tell us?

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Dialogue on the current and potential direction of digital technology: Evgeny Morozov (writer), Ugo Pagano (Università di Siena, Forum Disuguaglianze e Diversità), Carlos De Martin (Politecnico di Torino), coordinated by Gea Scancarello (journalist)

h.11.00

Lectio by Vincent Bevins (journalist and writer, moving from his book If we Burn. The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

h.11.30

Lectio on politics and policies of “democratic experimentalism” by Filippo Barbera (Università di Torino, Forum Disuguaglianze e Diversità)

h.12.00

Lectio by Elena Granaglia (Università Roma Tre, Forum Disuguaglianze e Diversità)   

◊ Session III. First part. New Generations and Democracy

• What ideas and suggestions come from the culture, language, experiments and practices of new generations for renewing democratic spaces and mechanisms?
• Are there new forms of organizations emerging within current movements that overcome the faults of “horizontalism”?

 h.12.30

Dialogue between Medea Ferrigno (Nesti impresa sociale), Ismahan Hassen (Centro interculturale Gomitoli), Alba Lala (Coordinamento nazionale Nuove Generazioni Italiane), Carmelo Traina (Questa è la mia terra), coordinated by Eugenio Damasio (No Panic Agency).