Periodic Reporting for period 1 - INNOVADE (INNOVAtive DEmocracy through digitalisation)
Berichtszeitraum: 2025-01-01 bis 2025-12-31
INNOVADE aims to:
• increase the capacity of policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to understand and make informed use of digital democratic tools;
• improve the knowledge on the current state of the art, future trends, and emerging next practices;
• help decisionmakers better understand frameworks, structures and settings required for inclusive digital governance;
• provide toolkit for making informed investment for transition to optimum digital democracies;
• build a “Digital Democracy App” that will surpass existing examples in terms of functions available, ease of use, and intelligibility;
• increase the capacity of policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to understand and make informed use of digital democratic tools;
• improve the knowledge on the current state of the art, future trends, and emerging next practices;
• help decisionmakers better understand frameworks, structures and settings required for inclusive digital governance;
• provide toolkit for making informed investment for transition to optimum digital democracies;
• build a “Digital Democracy App” that will surpass existing examples in terms of functions available, ease of use, and intelligibility;
• KER1 - The knowledge base is a key-go-to source for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers on digital democracy. It will be also supported by an additional aspect with the new partner added to the consortium.
• KER2 - Digital Democracy Grading Toolkit. This tool has been developed help governments evaluate how well governments are using digital technology to promote democratic participation and based on results highlight areas where the government could improve. It is a unique tool that in several perspectives. Operators of such projects are asked to provide information on their projects by answering survey questions, based on which a variety of Digital Democracy Scores are calculated that are then combined into an overall Digital Democracy Score. The methodology is scalable; it can be applied at the local, municipal level, but also at the regional, national, or transnational level, that is, at all organisational levels of digital democracy. So, it fills a gap for measuring digital democracy initiatives.
• KER3 - White Paper on the Future of Digital Democracy is developed to be a major reference for governments to shape decision on transition to digital democracy, and to do so at what pace and under what modalities. This white paper outlines four potential futures or scenarios of digital democracy. These scenarios illustrate how digitalisation could impact society and democratic governance. The method is storytelling, namely the construction of four realist science fiction scenarios that aim at providing food for thought about what a future digital society could look like and what digital futures are desirable and undesirable for stakeholder groups.
• KER6 - Digital Democracy Preference Toolkit reflects preferred participation culture of the citizens and engagement strategies of the governments. We will heavily rely on the toolkit in developing our digital democracy app. It will be published as well as an academic paper. Based on the main findings of the empirical research, KER derived ten recommendations for designing a Digital Democracy Application (DDA) for the stakeholder groups. This KER can help governments to foresee potential futures of digital democracy and make long term plans accordingly in a better-informed way.
So, for both expected outcomes, INNOVADE made significant progress, although it was its first year, for both state-of-the-art research and beyond. The results brought valuable resources to the Digital Democracy Field, both for researchers and practitioners.
• KER2 - Digital Democracy Grading Toolkit. This tool has been developed help governments evaluate how well governments are using digital technology to promote democratic participation and based on results highlight areas where the government could improve. It is a unique tool that in several perspectives. Operators of such projects are asked to provide information on their projects by answering survey questions, based on which a variety of Digital Democracy Scores are calculated that are then combined into an overall Digital Democracy Score. The methodology is scalable; it can be applied at the local, municipal level, but also at the regional, national, or transnational level, that is, at all organisational levels of digital democracy. So, it fills a gap for measuring digital democracy initiatives.
• KER3 - White Paper on the Future of Digital Democracy is developed to be a major reference for governments to shape decision on transition to digital democracy, and to do so at what pace and under what modalities. This white paper outlines four potential futures or scenarios of digital democracy. These scenarios illustrate how digitalisation could impact society and democratic governance. The method is storytelling, namely the construction of four realist science fiction scenarios that aim at providing food for thought about what a future digital society could look like and what digital futures are desirable and undesirable for stakeholder groups.
• KER6 - Digital Democracy Preference Toolkit reflects preferred participation culture of the citizens and engagement strategies of the governments. We will heavily rely on the toolkit in developing our digital democracy app. It will be published as well as an academic paper. Based on the main findings of the empirical research, KER derived ten recommendations for designing a Digital Democracy Application (DDA) for the stakeholder groups. This KER can help governments to foresee potential futures of digital democracy and make long term plans accordingly in a better-informed way.
So, for both expected outcomes, INNOVADE made significant progress, although it was its first year, for both state-of-the-art research and beyond. The results brought valuable resources to the Digital Democracy Field, both for researchers and practitioners.
KER1 - The Interdisciplinary knowledge base is a key-go-to source for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers on digital democracy, including its main aspects and challenges. It has gained attention of the researchers in this field and also practitioners while presented during several events. As a single document covering many different aspects of Digital Democracy, it has a potential to have an impact in the field.
KER2 - Digital Democracy Score is a beyond the state-of-the art tool which fills a gap for measuring digital democracy initiatives at all levels (local to international), including all main democracy models. It is a survey based online platform, available for the use of everyone, that can give visualised results, and recommendations for improvement but still can be defined as a prototype that can be further improved.
KER3 - White Paper on the Future of Digital Democracy is developed to be a major reference for governments to shape decision on transition to digital democracy, and to do so at what pace and under what modalities. This white paper outlines four potential futures or scenarios of digital democracy. These scenarios illustrate how digitalisation could impact society and democratic governance. The method is storytelling, namely the construction of four realist science fiction scenarios that aim at providing food for thought about what a future digital society could look like and what digital futures are desirable and undesirable for stakeholder groups. This is also a beyond the-state-of-the-art publication focusing on the future of digital democracy.
KER6 - Digital Democracy Preference Toolkit reflects preferred participation culture of the citizens and engagement strategies of the governments. We will heavily rely on the toolkit in developing our digital democracy app. It will be published as well as an academic paper. Based on the main findings of the empirical research, KER derived ten recommendations for designing a Digital Democracy Application (DDA) for the stakeholder groups. This KER can help governments to foresee potential futures of digital democracy and make long term plans accordingly in a better-informed way. This is also a beyond the-state-of-the-art publication focusing on the future of digital democracy.
KER2 - Digital Democracy Score is a beyond the state-of-the art tool which fills a gap for measuring digital democracy initiatives at all levels (local to international), including all main democracy models. It is a survey based online platform, available for the use of everyone, that can give visualised results, and recommendations for improvement but still can be defined as a prototype that can be further improved.
KER3 - White Paper on the Future of Digital Democracy is developed to be a major reference for governments to shape decision on transition to digital democracy, and to do so at what pace and under what modalities. This white paper outlines four potential futures or scenarios of digital democracy. These scenarios illustrate how digitalisation could impact society and democratic governance. The method is storytelling, namely the construction of four realist science fiction scenarios that aim at providing food for thought about what a future digital society could look like and what digital futures are desirable and undesirable for stakeholder groups. This is also a beyond the-state-of-the-art publication focusing on the future of digital democracy.
KER6 - Digital Democracy Preference Toolkit reflects preferred participation culture of the citizens and engagement strategies of the governments. We will heavily rely on the toolkit in developing our digital democracy app. It will be published as well as an academic paper. Based on the main findings of the empirical research, KER derived ten recommendations for designing a Digital Democracy Application (DDA) for the stakeholder groups. This KER can help governments to foresee potential futures of digital democracy and make long term plans accordingly in a better-informed way. This is also a beyond the-state-of-the-art publication focusing on the future of digital democracy.