EDDY-2026: Digital Democracy - Bridging Theory and Practice

EDDY 2026, themed Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice, examines how digital technologies are reshaping democratic processes—for better and worse. From online deliberation platforms and participatory budgeting tools to algorithmic content curation and digital voting systems, the infrastructure of democracy is increasingly digital, and EDDY brings together the researchers and practitioners who study and build it.

Political scientists, legal scholars, computational social choice researchers, platform governance experts, and civic technologists attend to present work on voting systems, digital identity, online deliberation, algorithmic bias in civic contexts, and the governance of digital platforms. EDDY 2026 is distinguished by its commitment to bridging normative democratic theory and empirical or engineering practice—asking not just what digital democracy could look like but what it actually does and whether it lives up to democratic ideals.

digital democracy online deliberation computational social choice participatory budgeting digital identity voting systems platform governance algorithmic bias