Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

“Digital Democracy Camp” – Your chance to help shape the digital future!

Are you interested in current topics relating to digital democracy and want to actively participate in discussions? Have you always wanted to know how digital tools can strengthen participation, transparency and co-determination – and what challenges and opportunities this entails?

Then the Digital Democracy Camp is the right place for you! Through the exchange between students, experts and interested parties, we will jointly develop ideas on how digital participation can shape the democracy of tomorrow.

The kick-off starts on Thursday afternoon with a joint welcome, a thematic introduction and an exciting input on the culture of discussion and debate. We will then work on initial topics and discuss them together – including with a representative of the KIT Executive Board, who will provide insights into current participation processes.

On Friday, the focus will be on the presentation of a student project (students of the Institute of Information Systems (WIN)), which deals with the strengthening of participation opportunities for students. Various digital tools will be presented that show how e-participation can promote transparency and participation. In interactive rounds at themed tables, you can experience for yourself how such platforms can be designed and what role user experience plays in successful participation.

The Digital Democracy Camp will focus on e-participation – the question of how digital participation can make our democracy more open, inclusive and sustainable.

Register now and become part of an active community that is shaping the digital democracy of tomorrow!

Further information at: https://www.hoc.kit.edu/digital-democracy/28.php

Note: The event will be held in German.

Learning objectives

In this one-day workshop you will learn

• … develop an understanding of digital democracy and its social significance.
• … get to know and critically reflect on central concepts and possible applications of e-participation.
• … analyze how digital participation formats can promote transparency, participation and co-determination.
• … strengthen your teamwork and cooperate effectively in groups.
• … improve your communication and argumentation skills.
• … to critically scrutinize problems and develop well-founded solutions.
• … develop political skills and play an active role in shaping the digital future

Workload for ECTS:

1 ECTS: Completion of the preparatory tasks in the associated Ilias course and active participation in the one-day workshop (both days)

Lecturer:

Sarah Herrmann is a cultural scientist. Her love for data and surveys developed during her studies (EUKliD/ minor subject sociology) and was strengthened by her work in the methods laboratory of the House of Competence. With parallel further training as a systemic consultant, she also works as a coach in various contexts. She is currently working as a research assistant at the interface of the House of Competence (HOC) and the quality management of the KIT on the conception of a data literacy module “survey@kit” for students in the field of surveys.

Michael Mäs is a proud sociologist. His research deals with complex systems such as social networks on the Internet, which he investigates using formal approaches and quantitative methods of social research (surveys, network analysis, laboratory and field experiments). He publishes in the fields of sociology, economics, physics, biology and computer science, among others.

Alexa Maria Kunz: A sociologist with a penchant for empirical, especially qualitative research, she focuses on student lifeworlds, interdisciplinary education and university organization. Thanks to interdisciplinary and participative projects, she is familiar with different working cultures. According to the motto “knowledge increases when it is shared”, she is looking forward to interactive events about (qualitative) research and the question of how collaboration can succeed and projects can be enjoyable. At the HoC, she heads the methods lab and is deputy managing director.