---
title: "From Computational Social Choice to Digital Democracy"
authors:
  - "Markus Brill"
doi: "10.24963/ijcai.2021/698"
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/698"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/0698.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2021
pages: "4937-4939"
track: "Early Career"
keywords:
  - "Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Computational Social Choice"
  - "Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Voting"
  - "AI Ethics, Trust, Fairness: Societal Impact of AI"
  - "AI Ethics, Trust, Fairness: Fairness"
---

# From Computational Social Choice to Digital Democracy

Markus Brill

*Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 4937-4939. DOI: [10.24963/ijcai.2021/698](https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/698)

## Abstract

Digital Democracy (aka e-democracy or interactive democracy) aims to enhance democratic decision-making processes by utilizing digital technology. A common goal of these approaches is to make collective decision-making more engaging, inclusive, and responsive to participants' opinions. For example, online decision-making platforms often provide much more flexibility and interaction possibilities than traditional democratic systems. It is without doubt that the successful design of digital democracy systems presents a multidisciplinary research challenge. I argue that tools and techniques from computational social choice should be employed to aid the design of online decision-making platforms and other digital democracy systems.