total of pb processes
​

20

local government
​

20

regional, state
​and national governments

0

other type of institution

0

large cities

0

capital cities

0

Outstanding innovation
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In Estonia, the e-Governance tools were pre-existing to PB, and facilitated the spreading of the process throughout the country.
Those tools enable online meetings and sessions, proposals submission, decision-making with digital authentication, public voting via ID-card, among other functionalities.

Principal tendencies detected
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The PB initiator, in this case the municipality of Tartu, is perceived as innovative, so other local authorities tend to follow, combining learning and imitation in the process, seeking to engage citizens and to gather information on their needs and preferences.

C O M M U N I T Y​

capital

Tallinn

population

1 320 880

language

Estonian

currency

Euro

P O S I T I O N   O N   I N D E X E S

DEMOCRACY

23
FLAWED DEMOCRACY

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

30
VERY HIGH

CORRUPTION PERCEPTION

18/180

WORLD HAPPINESS

55/156