First IMFD Research Seminar: "Liquid Democracy: An Algorithmic Perspective".

December 2021. Resuming face-to-face activities after the pandemic, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data held in hybrid format the first IMFD Research Seminar: "Liquid Democracy: an Algorithmic Perspective", presented by Pablo Barceló, alternate director of IMFD and director of IMC UC.

In the presentation, Barceló explores the potential functioning of the "liquid democracy" system, whose main objective is to offer a different vision of democracy and computational social choice. Its pros and cons were analyzed: on the one hand it has a commitment to representative democracy, but on the other hand it can be susceptible to the more oligarchic tendencies of it. 

During the event, several debates were generated on how this algorithmic system would work due to the complexity that it would take to carry it out in reality, fulfilling the objective of this activity: to motivate interdisciplinary participation among the various IMFD teams.