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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIE S AND THE FUTURE OF CITIZENSHI P
CIT- TECH INTERNATIONAL WORKSH O P
June 12-13, 2018 March 28-29, 2019
Migration and Diversity Research Area Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society WZB Berlin Social Science Center Harvard University Berlin Cambridge, MA
Organizers:
Liav Orgad WZB Berlin, IDC Herzliya, EUI Florence
Primavera de Filippi CNRS Paris, Harvard, EUI Florence
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
The last century has been characterized The first workshop will be held in Berlin by fierce debates on national citizenship on June 12-13, 2018. Participants will be regimes—whether the rules to gain or lose organized into four themed panels: 1) the status of citizenship are just, whether the Digital Demos and Algorithmic Citizenship; status of citizenship should be central in 2) Citizenship Match-Maker; 3) Global securing human rights, and whether the Citizenship and E-Identity; 4) The Future of possession of citizenship requires a Citizenship. Presenters should prepare an 8- confirmation of identity. Existing regimes 10 page “think piece,” addressing the issues were evolved in a different era—when human raised by their panel’s theme. These short mobility, legal structure, and technological papers will provide the conceptual development were all of a different character. framework for the discussions and the The workshop brings together a team of feedback of the interlocutors. We are asking leading scholars with the goal of producing a presenters to submit their think pieces three groundbreaking volume on the challenges weeks before the first workshop (no later and opportunities that emerging than June 1), so that we can distribute them technologies pose to existing theories and to the participants in advance. The second practices of citizenship. Our goal is to workshop will be held on March 28-29, support the front-line research in this 2019. It will build on the discussions and nascent field and establish a community of feedback of the first workshop. Its format interdisciplinary researchers interested in a will be similar in structure, but authors will new approach to thinking of citizenship be asked to submit a more fully developed regimes. How can/should new technologies 25/30-page research paper. The papers will be due to the beginning of February 2019 and remodel citizenship, bring about new forms of governance, and redefine state local commentators in Cambridge MA will sovereignty and the nation-state system? be similarly recruited for the second meeting.
FIRST WORKSHOP PROGRAM
June 11th, 2018
19.30 Dinner (at Van Loon Restaurant Boat)
June 12th, 2018
KEYNOTE SPEECH
09.30 Arrival at WZB / Berlin Social Science Center
10.00 – 10.30 Welcoming Remarks Liav Orgad (WZB, IDC, EUI) Primavera de Filippi (CNRS Paris, Harvard)
10.30 -12.00 Keynote Speech Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School) “The People: Hearing Us, As Sensible”
Musical interludes Revital Hachamoff, Piano
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch Break
PANEL 1 | DIGITAL DEMOS AND ALGORITHMIC CITIZENSHIP
Computer algorithms use online activity to decide “who we are” in the digital world. Governments and private firms use this data to determine questions relating to one’s status, identity, and rights (e.g., NSA’s PRISM Surveillance Program and China’s Social Credit System). How can digital identity redefine the institution of citizenship and the demos? Should it matter for law enforcement? Can citizen rating methods, according to a catalogue of good deeds, enhance civic participation? What are the ethical dilemmas involved in citizenship datafication? What will be the power shifts between citizens and states, and how to talk about human rights when citizenship is digitized? And what should be the regulatory scheme for such gamification of citizenship? Topics include online reputation, social scoring systems, jus digitalis, and tokenization of rights.
13.00 – 15:45 Panel Discussion Chair: Primavera de Filippi (CNRS, Harvard)
Anne Cheung (University of Hong Kong) David Levi-Faur and Inbar Mizrachy (Hebrew University) John Cheney-Lippold (University of Michigan) Alison Powell (LSE)
Interlocutors: Jeanette Hofmann (WZB) Kate Vredenburgh (Harvard)
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee Break
PANEL 2 | CITIZENSHIP MATCH-MAKER
Matching algorithms have been proven effective in many fields, often more than human selection. Can matching theories help allocating immigrants to states and selecting citizens by-demand (“vacancies for citizenship”), taking into account changing preferences and interests of both sides? How can the EU profit from a matching system for responsibility-sharing—distribution of both the “burden” and the “benefit”? What can be the justifications for immigration selection by matching systems, and what ethical dilemmas are involved in this scheme? Can big data and machine learning techniques reveal collective dynamics and areas where integration work well?
16.15 – 19.00 Panel Discussion Chair: Liav Orgad (WZB, IDC, EUI)
Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard) Ruud Koopmans (WZB) Innar Liiv (Tallinn University of Technology) Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University)
Interlocutors: Dorothea Kübler (WZB) Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA)
20.00 Dinner (Orania Berlin) Music: Revital Hachamoff, Piano; Ehud Shapiro, Baritone
June 13th, 2018
PANEL 3 | GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND E-IDENTITY
Recent attempts to create Blockchain-based communities and government services already offer non-territorial forms of political membership and challenge the definition of the “state” as we know it—as a legal entity that must have a permanent population, a physical territory, and a centralized government. Can blockchain and other technologies set the grounds for new forms of political membership? What conceptions of citizenship and sovereignty can emerge out of it? Can digital identities be used for the promotion of a new concept, “global citizenship,” and what challenges and dilemmas will it bring about? Topics include crypto-nations and DBVN- citizenship, cloud communities, e-Estonia, global personas and decentralized digital sovereignty.
09.00 Welcome Coffee 09.30 – 12.15 Panel Discussion Chair: Wessel Reijers (Dublin City University/EUI)
Svenja Ahlhaus and Mattis Jacobs (University of Hamburg) Yasodara Córdova (Harvard/FGV) Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Interlocutors: Helmut Aust (Freie Universität Berlin) Mattias Kumm (WZB/NYU)
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break
ROUNDTABLE | THE FUTURE OF CITIZENSHIP
14.00 – 15.30 Roundtable & Closing Remarks Alexander Aleinikoff (The New School) Rainer Bauböck (EUI) Kalypso Nicolaidis (University of Oxford) Beth Simone Noveck (NYU)
PARTICIPANTS
Svenja Ahlhaus, Research Associate in Political Theory, University of Hamburg
Alexander Aleinikoff, Director, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School
Helmut Aust, Professor of Public Law and International Law, Freie Universität Berlin
Rainer Bauböck, Professor of Social and Political Theory, EUI Florence
Anne Cheung, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
Yasodara Córdova, Fellow, Berkman-Klein Center, Harvard; Center for Technology, FGV Rio
David Levi-Faur, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Hebrew University
Primavera de Filippi, Fellow, CNRS Paris; Faculty Associate, Berkman-Klein Center, Harvard
Paul Gölz, Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Mattis Jacobs, Graduate Research Associate in Informatics, University of Hamburg
Jeanette Hofmann, Head, The Internet Policy Project Group, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Scott Duke Kominers, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Ruud Koopmans, Director, Migration, Integration, Transnationalization Unit, WZB Berlin
Dorothea Kübler, Director, Research Unit Market Behavior, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Mattias Kumm, Research Professor, WZB Berlin Social Science Center & NYU Law School
Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
Innar Liiv, Associate Professor of Data Science, Tallinn University of Technology
John Cheney-Lippold, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, University of Michigan
Inbar Mizrachy, Fellow, School of Public Policy and Government, Hebrew University
Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Kalypso Nicolaidis, Director of the Center for International Studies, University of Oxford
Beth Simone Noveck, Director, Governance Lab (GovLab), NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Liav Orgad, Director, Global Citizenship Law, EUI Florence / WZB Berlin / IDC Herzliya
Alison Powell, Assistant Professor of Media and Communications, LSE
Ariel Procaccia, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Wessel Reijers, Research Associate & Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute
Ehud Shapiro, Professor of Computer Science and Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Kate Vredenburgh, Graduate Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Katrin Ludwig
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Tel.: +49 3025491-453 | 450 Fax: +49 3025491-452
E-mail: [email protected]
This workshop is funded by the European Research Council (Grant # 716350)
BLOCKCHAIN AND THE LAW Harvard University Press, 2018
Since Bitcoin appeared in 2009, the “Blockchain and the Law should be digital currency has been hailed as an required reading for anyone serious about Internet marvel and decried as the preferred understanding this major emerging element transaction vehicle for all manner of of our technological ecosystem.” criminals. It has left nearly everyone without —Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth a computer science degree confused: Just how of Networks. do you “mine” money from ones and zeros?
The answer lies in a technology called “A well-written and comprehensive blockchain, which can be used for much book that cuts through the blockchain hype. more than Bitcoin. A general-purpose tool It not only highlights the powers and for creating secure, decentralized, peer-to- limitations of blockchain technology, but peer applications, blockchain technology has solidly grounds it in a larger social and legal been compared to the Internet itself in both context.” form and impact. Some have said this tool —Bruce Schneier, author of Data and may change society as we know it. Goliath. Blockchains are being used to create autonomous computer programs known as “smart contracts,” to expedite payments, to “Blockchain and the Law perfectly links create financial instruments, to organize the technical understanding with practical and exchange of data and information, and to legal implications. Blockchains will matter facilitate interactions between humans and crucially; this book, beautifully and clearly machines. The technology could affect written for a wide audience, powerfully governance itself, by supporting new demonstrates how.” organizational structures that promote more —Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law democratic and participatory decision making. School.
June 13th, 2018 16:00-17:30
Please join us to a thought-provoking book discussion:
Blockchain and the Law: The Role of Code Authors: Primavera De Filippi and Aaron Wright Harvard University Press, 2018
Blockchain and the Law urges the legal systems to catch up. That is because disintermediation—a blockchain’s greatest asset—subverts critical regulation. By cutting out middlemen, such as large online operators and multinational corporations, blockchains run the risk of undermining the capacity of governmental authorities to supervise activities in banking, commerce, law, and other vital areas. De Filippi and Wright welcome the new possibilities inherent in blockchains. But as Blockchain and the Law makes clear, the technology cannot be harnessed productively without new rules and new approaches to legal thinking.
Location: WZB Berlin Social Science Center
PROGRAM
Chair Liav Orgad (WZB, IDC, EUI)
16.00 – 16.30 Book Talk Primavera de Filippi (CNRS Paris, Harvard)
16.30 – 17.00 Discussants Jeanette Hofmann (WZB Berlin) Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School)
17.00 – 17.30 Q&A