In recent years, numerous e-participation opportunities have emerged. Their scope and impact vary across countries. This contribution reviews the performance of observed e-democracy initiatives in Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova, based on expert interviews, content analysis of online cases, and related self-reported statistics. The studied countries demonstrate a wide spectrum of e-democracy forms, tools, their usage rates, and influences on policy making. Belarus has the fewest e-participation opportunities, Moldova has more tools but little e-participation, while Ukraine has a more functional version of digital democracy in terms of numbers of available e-participation formats, instruments, their usage rates, and impact on public policy.
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2019.06.23
How Stockholm is leading the way for smart cities
BY Anna König Jerlmyr, President of EUROCITIES and mayor of Stockholm
Stockholm is one of the world’s most connected cities, and a beacon for innovators and international talent. We are also a forward-looking city, leading the environmental and smart city agendas. By 2040, we have the ambition to be both carbon neutral and the smartest city in the world.
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Toronto releases its first resilience strategy
- Toronto on Tuesday released its first resilience strategy, designed to help the city "survive, adapt and thrive in the face of any challenge, particularly climate change and growing inequities." That makes Toronto the second Canadian city, after Montreal, to release a resilience strategy.
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What’s the difference between Civic Tech and GovTech?
This article was written Wietse van Ransbeeck, Co-founder and CEO of CitizenLab. For more like this, see our digital government newsfeed.
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