News

November 2024

19 November 2024

You are welcome to check out my blog post "Ukraine’s cyber resilience: Centralised and grassroots" published by HROMADA. 

7 November 2024

It is an honour of being awarded a gratitude from Maksym Kononenko, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Estonia, for "active public position and professional efforts, which are a manifestation of true patriotism." I appreciate the recognition and further continue activities aimed at strengthening international support to Ukraine.

September 2024

2 September 2024

I have started the 2024 edition of the course "Ukraine: A Nation at the Frontier" at the University of Tartu. Over 45 students from Estonia, Czechia, Germany, France, UK, USA, and Thailand signed up for the course.

May 2024

30 May 2024

It was inspiring to give the interview about our E-Governance Academy's project DEUCE:  Digital Empowerment of the Ukrainian Community in Estonia.

13 May 2024

Excited that our with Logan Carmichael paper is published in the WoS & Scopus-indexed Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs!

March 2024

19 March 2024

You are welcome to take a look at my blog post about Ukraine's efforts to ensure transparent reconstruction - the DREAM e-system.

January 2024

24 January 2024

I am proud to share with you our fresh Eastern Partnership Index 2023. It covers the areas of good governance, democracy, the rule of law, gender policies, sustainable development, policy convergence with the EU, and the EU enlargement process in the 6 EaP countries.

15 January 2024

Please check out our latest report exposing Russian influence in Europe (in Germany, France, Italy and Ukraine).

September 2023

27 September 2023

You are welcome to listen to my reflections about latest trends in digital participation - in the Digital Government Podcast episode.

18 September 2023

JeDEM - EJournal of EDemocracy and Open Government just published mine and Eduardo Astudillo Laureda's article exploring the role of internet voting in open government in Chile and Colombia.

4 September 2023

I'm delighted to start working as an Expert at the Governance & Engagement Competence Center, e-Governance Academy.

1 September 2023

I am honoured to perform the duties of the Head of the University of Tartu Ukraine Centre (UTUC).

July 2023

June 2023

21 June 2023

Thrilled that mine, Olga Matveieva’s and Diana Mirza Grisco’s article “Voting in online surveys on open government policies in Moldova and Ukraine” is published in Internet Policy Review!

April 2023

24 April 2023

You are welcome to take a look at the policy brief series on internet voting and open government, co-authored by Elisa Lironi and me.

February 2023

19 February 2023

I would like to share with you my overview article about patterns and trends of digital transformation.

November 2022

14 November 2022

These 6 weeks I'll be a Visiting Senior Policy Analyst at the European Citizen Action Service (ECAS). Will explore the developments and perspectives in European Democracy and definitely advocate more EU support for Ukraine.

5 November 2022

In this video interview, you can hear my thoughts on the sources of Ukraine's digital resilience in countering Russia's invasion.

October 2022

3 October 2022

Happy to share my conference paper "The Diffusion of Electronic Voting for Participatory Budgeting Projects: Evidence from Ukraine" published in E-Vote-ID 2022 proceedings.

September 2022

18 September 2022

For the next 6 weeks I'll be a Visiting Fellow at the Digital Democracy Lab at the University of Zurich. Will explore modern trends in e-governance, e-participation, social media discourses, and of course communicate and advocate more support for Ukraine.

March 2022

18 March 2022

Why is Ukraine so resilient to Russia's attack? Ream in my op-ed.

November 2021

1 November 2021

Glad to present you my co-authored report on digital rights and public health in Ukraine.

September 2021

1 September 2021

I am delighted to start working as a Research Fellow in Digital Governance at the University of Tartu. Will explore the impact of internet voting on open government. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

July 2021

23 July 2021

Happy to share with you my recent analytical report comparing participatory budgeting impact in Poland in Ukraine.

9 July 2021

A new monitoring of Ukraine's reforms in e-governance and e-democracy during 2020-2021 co-authored by Khrystyna Kvartsiana and me is published as a policy brief.

June 2021

24 June 2021

I'm glad to share with you my recent co-authored report on Ukraine's advance in open government reforms during 2018-2020.

May 2021

31 May 2021

It was interesting to have a discussion on digital democracy developments for the Talk Eastern Europe Podcast.

20 May 2021

It was a pleasure to participate in the panel discussion at the webinar on online voting. 

3 May 2021

Glad to see my overview of the Digital Democracy Database by the European Digital Development Alliance published in the Ideology and Politics Journal. 

February 2021

12 February 2021

I'm delighted to release the Digital Democracy Database! It includes 50 countries and over 1000 e-democracy cases systematically described and classified according to a unified conceptual framework.

December 2020

22 December 2020

I'm pleased to share my chapter on digital technologies of political parties in Ukraine, co-authored and published by the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening and International Republican Institute.

8 December 2020

I am delighted to tell that Chris Chase-Dunn's and mine chapter about the evolution of geopolitics and imperialism has been published in the Oxford World History of Empire by the Oxford University Press.

October 2020

8 October 2020

Excited to share my article on blockchain-based electronic voting in Ukraine.

August 2020

27 August 2020

Delighted to share my policy paper on challenges and solutions of internet voting.

July 2020

10 July 2020

Happy to share the practitioner article on citizens' assemblies.

1 July 2020

I'm excited to start my Visby Programme at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University in Sweden.

April 2020

23 April 2020

Happy to share the popular article on e-voting in Ukraine.

March 2020

3 March 2020

I would like to present the co-authored with IRM report on Ukraine government's undertakings to introduce further open government reforms for 2018-2020 (4th cycle).

January 2020

10 January 2020

I'm delighted to start my Policy Leader Fellowship at the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

December 2019

6 December 2019

Happy to share the findings of a comprehensive research of participatory budgeting impact in Ukraine conducted together with Kristina Avramchenko.

October 2019

11 October 2019

The video-recording of my webinar on dynamic leadership is now available online.

September 2019

4 September 2019

I am happy to share with you my reflection paper "E-Participation Waves: A Reflection on the Baltic and the Eastern European Cases" published in EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019 conference proceedings.

August 2019

23 August 2019

After two years of examination I am honored to finally present you my evaluation report on Ukraine's advance in Open Government Partnership initiative during 2016-2018 (3rd cycle).

July 2019

24 July 2019

The results of the first stage of a large-scale research of the Civil Service of Ukraine have been published.

01 July 2019

I am happy to start my research at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies at Bochum, Germany.

June 2019

24 June 2019

My overview article on Electronic Democracy in Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine published at Südosteuropa: Journal of Politics and Society.

6 June 2019

My article titled "Pirate Parties :The Social Movements of Electronic Democracy" has been published at the Journal of Comparative Politics.

May 2019

17 May 2019

I am happy to present my study game Hegemony. It resembles Mafia / Assassin / Werewolf social game, but players lead empires as in Sid Meier's Civilization. Actually, the gameplay is based on scientific research on global political economy.

15 May 2019

It was exciting to present a talk on Online Civic Participation in Ukraine: An Institutionalized Democratic Governance at Aleksanteri Institute, the University of Helsinki.

3 May 2019

It was a insightful to present and discuss the talk on Electronic petitions in the Eastern European and the Baltic States at the academic conference at HCAS.

April 2019

16 April 2019

It was a pleasure to present some preliminary findings on the global development agenda research at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies seminar.

1 April 2019

It's inspiring to discuss plans for advancing e-democracy with wonderful peers of e-Governance Academy!

March 2019

13 March 2019

Happy to share with you the story of the evolution of OGP's collaborative design in Ukraine.

11 March 2019

It is exciting to come back to Linkoeping University for a week-long academic exchange of experiences, perspectives, and new ideas.

1 March 2019

It was exciting to present my research design on the global development agenda at the University of Helsinki Postdoc Symposium.

February 2019

6 February 2019

It was an honor to present on Rotational Leadership: The Case of Ukraine’s e-Democracy Coalition at the On Think Tanks Conference in Geneva.

5 February 2019

My article on Electronic Democracy Boom in Ukraine has been published by IWM.

January 2019

18 January 2019

I would like to share with you my review on Salvatore Babones's book "The New Authoritarianism." 

15 January 2019

I am happy to start a new research fellowship on global development agenda at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies