About the need for greater awareness of citizens and digitalization of activities on initiative projects

The article notes that, despite the development of the practice of initiative budgeting (institute of initiative projects) in Russia for 10 years, in general, this institute has not received a wide scope, has not become one of the main tools for creating a comfortable living environment, improving the well-being of citizens. The author considers low civic activity to be the most important reason for the modest results of the introduction of initiative budgeting into social practice. To increase it, it is proposed to strengthen the work on awareness of citizens by extending it to social networks using modern gadgets. It is also proposed to create an Internet resource at the level of each subject of the Federation - a platform for initiative projects with an easy-to-learn and user-friendly interface, so that on this platform it would be easy and quick to learn how to apply, create an initiative project (possibly collectively), discuss it, look for like-minded people, including those who wish to co-finance the project, discuss the project and vote for it, make an application and submit the project to the competition, as well as monitor its execution, costs, etc. until its final implementation and closure. The author also believes that a regulatory and methodological framework should be created to implement these recommendations.