Position statement: how democratic will e-democracy be?

As we depend more and more on technology multidisciplinarity is imperative to understand the requirements of the emerging information society effective solutions need careful consideration of: i) how technology permeates the societal systems (e-gov, e-health, e-economy, etc.) and how to preserve and maintain "trust"; ii) the societal implications, in terms of stability and social order, of un-governed and "fast" technology-push (i.e., CIIP, malware, etc.); iii) how to ensure durable and persistent access to "our" digital knowledge, information, date and assets, which are more and more trapped in "closed" applications, commercial technologies and platforms; iv) how to develop socio-technical "safeguards" for users w.r.t. privacy, potentially transparent commercial discrimination, lack of freedom of choice, etc.