Online tools for information and participation in decision making of ministries and parliament and ministries: The government has established a mechanism for online participation called ‘e-petition’41 that allows citizens to create internet petition, which, if supported by 6 000 citizens, can be submitted to the government for consideration in the form of initiative. The government has also launched a portal (www.euprava.me) with a plan to facilitate and speed up communication with the citizens, through the system of electronic document management. The Government of Montenegro and the Parliament of Montenegro have their own websites and emails. Also, these authorities use online contact forms and accounts on social networks to communicate with citizens and young people. All ministries have their own websites and e-mail accounts which citizens, and thus young people, can use to acquire information about the work of these organs or come to the necessary information. Of social networks, Facebook is the most popular, followed by Twitter.

Online tools for information and participation in decision making of municipalities: At the local level, all local government units (except at the moment the Municipality of Gusinje) have their own websites and e-mail. The form for the questions of citizens available on the website has a slightly smaller number of municipalities, while other channels are rare. The exceptions are certain municipal secretariats and for example offices for youth, which have their emails, Twitter accounts and even official Facebook pages.42

To make effective use of information and communication technologies to broaden and deepen participation of young people preliminary measures and initiatives were taken after the EU Youth Strategy came into force, e.g. in the framework of the Youth Social Revitalization project (2009- 2011), in partnership with IOM, several activities have been undertaken, and three websites/internet platforms have been created. Ever since, DYS supported a variety of youth information projects and youth information workers training, as well as national activities in the framework of the European campaign on the youth right to information e.g. “Information Right Now!”

• U-Report Western Balkans43

The UNICEF Global initiative was launched in May 2018 representing the world’s first sub regional U-Report which includes the UNICEF Country Offices of Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro. The goal of the Western Balkans U-Report is to serve as a platform that facilitates the flow of information and analysis at national and sub-regional levels, providing many quantifiable and reliable metrics for evaluating and steering national and regional policy development and integration, and for gauging progress on SDGs and on other global indicators such as gender equality, human rights, inclusion of youth in decision-making processes and others. The Western Balkans U-Report will be led by national steering committees of each respective country office, where each will design and conduct national polls in their respective countries, while a sub-regional steering committee will structure question flows for conducting sub-regional polls, in topics and areas that are relevant and important to the sub-region, as defined by the sub-regional steering committee. Western Balkans U-Report poll results can be viewed for each country separately or for the entire Western Balkans sub-region. The Western Balkans U-Report will enable quick and easy comparative analysis between Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro to determine the challenges and issues faced by their respective residents, and to examine opportunities for institutional as well as inter-agency co-operation at both the national and sub-regional levels, in addressing the challenges, issues and situations uncovered by U-Repo