People’s Agenda
This is an analytical special project of the Center for Innovation Development aimed at studying, developing and adapting e-democracy tools in Ukraine. We explore how citizens use digital participation mechanisms to influence government decisions – from petitions and participatory budgets to consultations and electronic appeals.
The project combines in-depth analytics, adaptation to the new realities of war, and international experience to strengthen citizen participation in decision-making processes, both in peacetime and during war.
🎯 Project goal
To strengthen citizens’ participation and influence on decision-making processes through e-democracy tools by regularly analyzing public requests, improving digital tools and mechanisms of interaction between the government and citizens.
Project objectives
1️⃣ Analyze public requests recorded through e-petitions and other e-democracy tools.
2️⃣ Identify key topics of concern to community residents across the country.
3️⃣ Evaluate the effectiveness of digital participation at the national and local levels.
4️⃣ Improve e-democracy tools based on data, citizens’ needs, and best international practices (including the experience of EU countries, OECD, UNDP).
5️⃣ Update the e-Democracy Index and ensure its regular monitoring.
6️⃣ Adapt e-tools to wartime conditions, ensuring their flexibility, security and accessibility.
7️⃣ Support digital participation in reconstruction through tools such as eIDEA and local co-production mechanisms.
8️⃣ Create a culture of early response by the authorities to civic initiatives – even before formal procedures are completed.
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Center for innovations development is the initiator of the introduction of e-petitions in Ukraine. In 2015, we advocated for changes to the law that legalized electronic petitions to all levels of government. In the first two weeks alone, more than a million Ukrainians used the tool. In 2015-2016, we helped to launch the first Kyiv Public Budget with 100% electronic voting, which covered 700 thousand residents. In 2017, we contributed to the creation of the state Concept for the Development of E-Democracy, and in 2020, Ukraine entered the top 50 countries in terms of e-participation (UN E-Participation Index), and Kyiv was ranked among the top 25 cities. We were the first in Ukraine to introduce the Local E-Democracy Index, develop the Public Model of Participatory Budgeting, regulations for dozens of communities, an online library, and 30+ studies and manuals. During the war, we adapted e-participation tools to new challenges: we introduced the Engagement in Reconstruction Indicator, tested the eIDEA platform, pushed for changes to the draft law on reconstruction, and formed a network of 30+ NGOs that promote community engagement in post-war reconstruction.
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When does Zelenskyy ignore veto petitions? – Research results
A total of 163 petitions were filed with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanding that he veto the draft laws. This is almost twice as many as during the work of the Parliament under Petro Poroshenko. However, only 7 petitions to Zelenskyy demanding that he veto a law passed by the Verkhovna Rada received more than 25,000 […]
