Digital Democracy Score (DDS)

Digital democracy is the use of digital media in the practice of democracy. It refers to the mediation, support, and enablement of democracy by digital technologies.

This tool helps you measure the qualities of concrete digital democracy applications or projects. It calculates Varieties of Digital Democracy Scores and combines them into one overall Digital Democracy Score (DDS), depending on what features your application or project uses. I will ask you a set of questions that will be used for this purposes. No personal data is stored. At the end, I will calculate the DDS and show the result

Introductory Questions

Let us start with basic questions about the features of your app or project. This will help me determining what questions I will ask and use.

I_Q1 How central for your project, app, or platform is online voting in the election of political representatives?

I_Q2 How central for your project, app, or platform is online voting for making citizens decide on particular topics?

I_Q3 How central for your project, app, or platform are online debates?

I_Q4 How central for your project, app, or platform are citizen participation tools?

I_Q5 What is the platform’s general approach to decision-making when differing views emerge among participants or when e-votes are undertaken that require clear decisions?

Your Digital Democracy Score (DDS) is: