Le piattaforme per la partecipazione digitale dei cittadini. Un’analisi basata sul modello di UE e Italia

The paper aims to consider the UE and Italian experiences of production, management, evaluation of digital platforms for citizens' participation in public policies. Comparing tools and formats of the two models of developing civic participation through ICT platforms, the emerging analysis presents differences in objectives, in the construction models, in the choice of purposes. In the EU case, the system aims at soliciting an ideal civic participation towards the model of Europe of the future, progressively encompassing more and more citizens, while the Italian outline gears towards more concrete and localized experiences of participation, especially in city-level participatory budgets with tangible objectives of urban transformation. From the comparison and synthesis of these two experiences, some theoretical and empirical elements can be drawn, in order to sketch a further development of digital platforms for citizen participation, in a context of growing participatory demand through unconventional formats and tools.