Pilgrims in the Digital Age: a research manifesto

This Manifesto provides a summary of discussions undertaken during the expert workshop ‘Pilgrims in the digital age. Towards a map of the overlapping area among eTourism, eReligion, eLearning’, held in Lugano (Switzerland), September 18-19, 2015. The main goal of the meeting was to draw a first map of the overlapping areas between eTourism, eReligion, eLearning, and to identify relevant research and development directions. This Manifesto was drafted by dr. Silvia De Ascaniis and Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Cantoni, then it was subjected to several rounds of editing by all participants. Those who have endorsed it are listed in the signatures at the end. In the following lines the organization of the workshop, the relevance of the topic, the approaches adopted to investigate the area as well as the key outputs of the discussions are presented