DigiDEM

By piloting crowdsourcing and social listening exercises across four EU countries, the project will contribute to providing a blueprint for innovative methods of citizen engagement that are implemented as complementary to representative democracy. Through its activities and outputs, DigiDEM also aims to establish a transnational community of policy makers, academics, businesses, NGOs and citizens which will continue to apply and advocate for the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to ensure inclusive and collaborative decision-making process at all levels.

The project is designed to go hand in hand with CODE Europe – a 3-year project funded by the EEA regional cooperation grants, piloting the collaborative method of crowdsourcing legislation in Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Latvia and Portugal.

DigiDEM is implemented in partnership with the following organisations:

• Stichting Netwerk Democratie, Netherlands
• Democracy International, Germany
• ProInfo Foundation, Bulgaria
• E-Riigi Akadeemia Sihtasutus, Estonia
• Gradjanska alijansa, Montenegro

We organised a total of 16 events. Please visit this page to view the list of all events and see more detailed information about each event.

ECAS will ensure the sound content and financial management of the project, will monitor and assess its implementation in terms of outcomes and outputs, and contribute to the evaluation of the crowdsourcing and social listening on ‘air quality’. The specific tasks for the project include:

• Provide methodologic support to the partners implementing the crowdsourcing pilots.
• Carry out a crowdsourcing pilot in Belgium.
• Ensure the state-of-the-art technological platform for both the crowdsourcing and the social listening.
• Support the knowledge-sharing of the results and lessons learnt.
• Engage EU decision-makers in the follow-up of the results of the crowdsourcing and the social listening on air quality, especially in terms of advocating to mainstream methods of digital democracy in decision-making process.
• Organise a Digital Democracy Day in Brussels to promote the project results and lessons learnt.