The concept of Cyber-Physical Society (CPSo) expands the concept of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) by including aspects related to knowledge, culture and society. Embedding computation in the control of our fast evolving society means mainly to trigger self-organizing mechanisms at any level in our complex world. The way democracy is exercised must benefit explicitly from the tremendous developme...

One of the most striking features of the anglophone literature on NGOs is the diversity of NGO sectors and their contributions to civil society and democracy; yet, exploration of this complexity is often eschewed in favour of a normative approach in which the apparently mutually enhancing relationship between NGOs, civil society and the state is underpinned by liberal democratic assumption rath...