e-Democracy Centre

"The e-DC now works... by furthering our understanding of the interaction between new information and communication technologies and our democratic institutions of governance through the pursuit of interdisciplinary research of the highest intellectual quality and by contributing and helping to shape the debate among the academic and policy communities...The e-DC was designed as a simultaneous spin-off of the University of Geneva based Research Centre on Direct Democracy (c2d) and a joint-venture between c2d, the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) of the University of Oxford. Its aim was to exploit the unused potential and experience acquired within the c2d as well as previously successful collaborations in the domain of e-democracy between the three institutions...On 1 September 2007, the eDC moved its administrative seat from the University of Geneva to the University of Zürich. It has now become a unit within the newly founded Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau (ZDA), University of Zürich."
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