National scientific conference: Politics and the digital: collision or collusion?

Under the theme “Politics and the digital: collision or collusion?”, the Euromed Institute of Legal and Political Sciences (IESJP) organized an event as part of a national scientific conference held at the Euromed University of Fes Eco-campus on December 19.

The conference aims to bring together diverse perspectives from a plurality of actors involved through their actions or advocacy, such as technological innovation and support for active digital citizenship. It also seeks to understand how digital technology helps reshape relations between rulers and the governed, contributing to a transformation of the traditional conception of the State and its modes of intervention (regulation).

Initiated by the speech of the Director of IESJP, Prof. Abderrahmane HADDAD, and in the presence of several experts in law, politics, education and sociology, the conference took place in four sessions of sharing and fruitful debate.

The first session focused on communication issues in the age of digitalization in the political context, ranging from journalism to political communication and marketing. The second session addressed the impact of digital technology on democratic renewal, through participatory democracy and the political engagement of young Moroccans. Politics tested by the globalized challenges of the digital was the subject of the third session of this event; the panel explored recent legal developments that have emerged with the need for data protection and the rise of the GAFAM. The fourth and final session focused on the governance of public policies in this new era of digitization of public administration and contracts, with experts highlighting the impact of digitalization on user reassurance, the confidence of foreign investors and on the acquisition of social capital and the development of entrepreneurship.

Confronted with these deep and intrinsically linked dynamics between digital technology and politics, researchers explored at this meeting the different facets of this major issue that increasingly occupies public and private spheres. It was a genuine opportunity for constructive exchanges and enlightened debates among experts, university faculty and students.