Empowering Citizens with and through Digital Technologies

about the project

DCitizens aims to foster Digital Civics research and innovation in Lisbon. Digital Civics is a cross-disciplinary field that posits the use of technology to empower citizens and non-state actors to co-create, take an active role in shaping agendas, make decisions about service provision, and make such provisions sustainable and resilient. Particularly how digital technologies can scaffold a move from transactional to relational service models and the potential of such models to reconfigure power relations between citizens, communities, and institutions.

latest news & events

Seminar Series: Ana Henriques, Filipe Tomé, and Patricia Piedade

Speakers Ana Henriques is currently a PhD student at the Interactive Technologies Institute/LARSyS, at the University of Lisbon, advised by Hugo Nicolau and Angelika Strohmayer. Ana has focused their research on the intersections of ethics, feminist HCI and community-based work while exploring what community-led ethics could look like as a process of feminist ethical frameworking…

Seminar Series: Tiffany Knearem

Speaker Formerly of Google and Meta, Tiffany Knearem is a User Experience Researcher who holds a PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from Pennsylvania State University. Her recent publications span topics of human-AI alignment, AI-supported design workflows, and community informatics. She was recently featured in ACM’s Interactions Magazine and is a regular speaker at ACM conferences….

Upcoming Workshop at ITI: Ethics and Responsibility in Research, Writing, and Publication

Following a successful session in Madeira, we are excited to host a two-day workshop at the Institute of Interactive Technologies (ITI) on January 30–31, 2025. The workshop, led by Professor Marty J. Wolf, Chair of the ACM Committee on Professional Ethics from the United States, will engage participants in critical discussions around ethics and responsibility…

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