The CIVICA collaborative research project, "DEMOS: Democracy and Its Discontents. A Historical Examination of the Current Predicament of Democracy” (2021-2023) has brought together history centres and departments from five members of the CIVICA alliance. In an interview with Mario del Pero, Professor of International History at Sciences Po and project coordinator, we delved into the evolution of DEMOS over the past few years.
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CIVICA Research gathers experts from the eight-member CIVICA alliance to contribute knowledge and solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.
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Digital technology now plays an important role in migration and border enforcement across Europe. Ludivine Sarah Stewart writes that while this technology comes with certain advantages, there is a risk that over-reliance on private technology companies for the management of migration could undermine public values such as accountability and participation.
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How are private providers of digital technology in education impacting traditional public values? This is the second blog post discussing the research from the collaborative research project DigiPublicValues: Preserving Public Values in Privatised Digital Systems.
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Justice systems across Europe are increasingly becoming ‘digitised’, with greater use of technology in the administration of the law. But does this process have a downside? Drawing on experiences in Italy and the UK, Giulia Gentile and Giovanni De Gregorio argue that over-reliance on private technology companies risks undermining the ‘publicness’ of justice systems.
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