The objective of the paper is to describe what the role of digital transformation is at the European level, particularly in the function related to new tools for managing European democratic participation. In fact, just in recent years we have seen a proliferation of European documents regulating the innovations inherent in digital transformation. The Conference on the Future of Europe is an example of these recent transformations. The methodology employed in the research, involves the analysis of the outcomes achieved as a result of the democratic participation of European citizens in the Conference on the Future of Europe, through the digital platform used. In addition, the analysis of specific data provides a sketch of the average user involved in the participation process, and the results compiled within the citizens' subgroups, organized at the ordinal level for individual States, show the results and demands of citizens made to the European Institutions. The results of the research should show whether the levels of participation were good or not, and if there was homogeneous participation in the Conference process. Although the analysis examines only one instrument, the results help to provide a snapshot of the level of democratic participation in Europe today, with particular reference to the needs of future generations that emerged at the Conference. Has the process of participation through the digital platform been inclusive and embracing of the differences and diversity of citizens, or has it been a model of exclusion for certain social groups? This study aims to emphasize the processes of digital transformation involving EU member states through the resulting structural planning that Digital transformation in european democratic participation processes today, play a key role according to the involvement of the European people in the processes of consultation and democratic participation.
Digital transformation in European democratic participation processes: the experience of the Conference on the future of Europe
Letizia Salvo
Primo
2025-01-01
Abstract
The objective of the paper is to describe what the role of digital transformation is at the European level, particularly in the function related to new tools for managing European democratic participation. In fact, just in recent years we have seen a proliferation of European documents regulating the innovations inherent in digital transformation. The Conference on the Future of Europe is an example of these recent transformations. The methodology employed in the research, involves the analysis of the outcomes achieved as a result of the democratic participation of European citizens in the Conference on the Future of Europe, through the digital platform used. In addition, the analysis of specific data provides a sketch of the average user involved in the participation process, and the results compiled within the citizens' subgroups, organized at the ordinal level for individual States, show the results and demands of citizens made to the European Institutions. The results of the research should show whether the levels of participation were good or not, and if there was homogeneous participation in the Conference process. Although the analysis examines only one instrument, the results help to provide a snapshot of the level of democratic participation in Europe today, with particular reference to the needs of future generations that emerged at the Conference. Has the process of participation through the digital platform been inclusive and embracing of the differences and diversity of citizens, or has it been a model of exclusion for certain social groups? This study aims to emphasize the processes of digital transformation involving EU member states through the resulting structural planning that Digital transformation in european democratic participation processes today, play a key role according to the involvement of the European people in the processes of consultation and democratic participation.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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