The annual Berlin Conference by Stiftung Zukunft Berlin took place from November 7 to November 9, 2021. The conference took off with a visit to Chemnitz, European Capital of Culture 2025. On the following days, the conference continued in Berlin at Allianz Forum, Pariser Platz. The conference was supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.
On both sides of the Atlantic, liquid democracy continues to strike a chord in the field of democratic self-organization. By embracing individual freedom of choice, it seeks to reconcile the idealistic appeal of pure democracy with the practicality of representation. Liquid democracy is of particular interest for democratic governance in civil society organizations, legislative bodies, and cooperatives.
In ongoing discussions on liquid democracy, we sometimes find arguments which appear to be based on the isolated examination of delegation graphs for a single decision as the underlying model. We believe that a comprehensive analysis of the functionality and the impact of liquid democracy requires a broader view, namely adding a temporal dimension to delegation models.
Andrés Zambrano-Bravo talks with Andreas Nitsche about LiquidFeedback, the challenges of online opinion formation, and application fields. In the second part of the interview, they discuss Liquid Democracy and its use in LiquidFeedback.