A new BRIDGE publication is out!

Andrii Darkovich and Dmytro Khutkyy, researchers of the BRIDGE project, examine how online platforms for consultations, voting, and budgeting are transforming participation in local decision-making — and why these tools do not always deliver the expected results.

The policy brief explores:

• what digital participation is and which formats it includes — from e-consultations to participatory budgeting 
• why the scale of online participation does not guarantee influence on policy 
• how the digital divide and unequal levels of skills may distort representativeness 
• when digital formats work best — and when in-person deliberation is essential 
• how online and offline tools are combined in practices such as vTaiwan, Decidim, and Consul 

We invite everyone working on public participation to explore the brief and find ways to make local decision-making more inclusive: https://zenodo.org/records/19237070

The BRIDGE project is implemented by Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine), Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands), the Technical University of Berlin (Germany), the University of Tartu (Estonia), and the Center for Innovation Development (Ukraine), and is funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe program. Any related publications reflect only the views of the project.