The e-DC is o­ne of the first interdisciplinary research centres dedicated to the study of e-democracy.

Its main goal is to improve our understanding of how new information and communication technologies are interacting with our institutions of democratic governance, and to study the outcomes that are being produced as a result of this interaction. To attain this goal the e-DC research team strives to pursue interdisciplinary research of the highest intellectual quality.

From its inception the e-DC has been fortunate in being able to rely o­n the support of three leading research institutes: the Research Centre o­n Direct Democracy (c2d) at the University of Geneva, the European University Institute (EUI) at Florence, and the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford.

The institute’s areas of expertise and close connections with the academic and policy communities offer it many opportunities to not o­nly help develop this exciting new field of research, but also to contribute to its practice.