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Public Budget Service

The Unified Platform for Local e-Democracy (abbreviated as e-DEM) aims to provide citizens with easy and convenient access to several e-democracy tools. In particular, the platform combines the following services: "Public Budget" developed by soft Xpansion

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 
 *As of December 2021

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