Public Budget Service – Eastern Europe Foundation

Project description

The Public Budget (Participation Budget) is an automated system that allows community residents to submit their projects and/or vote for those already submitted, thereby influencing the distribution of a certain share of local budget funds 

Project website: budget.e-dem.ua/landing   

Functionality

• Electronic registration of citizens who want to submit or vote for the project 
• Electronic submission of projects based on a special questionnaire (the questionnaire can be configured individually for each community) 
• Disclosure of project data and ensuring the possibility of voting for the project, recording the date and time 
• Flexible settings for each community contest: categories, calendar plan, electronic questionnaire, etc. 
• Ability to divide projects into types to configure voting conditions 
• A tool for searching and sorting projects by various parameters (number, budget, number of votes) 
• Ability to upload a list of projects and votes (for the primary administrator) 
• Checking each vote to avoid duplication and performing pre-configured parameters 

Implementation results 

• An electronic system has been created that allows citizens to submit projects online for consideration by a local government body, view and vote for already submitted projects, thus influence the distribution of a certain share of local budget funds 
• The solution is adapted for use on any platform that has modern browsers 
• Optimized working with a large number of simultaneous users during parallel voting 
• 190 +* local self-government bodies connected to the system 
• 8000 +* projects submitted to the system
• 2.7 million +* votes collected from system users 
• 1 million +* system users 

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