Helena Kõrge
email: helena.korge@mkm.ee

Regina Erlenheim
email: regina.erlenheim@taltech.ee

Dirk Draheim
email: dirk.draheim@taltech.ee

Designing Proactive Business Event Services A Case Study of the Estonian Company Registration Portal

Keywords: e-government, proactive services, life events, service design

In the last decade, effectiveness, efficiency and quality have been main objectives in the transformation of government services. Citizen orientation can be seen as the crucial driver behind these objectives. A contemporary theme in all of this is about proactive services. Proactive services switch the service delivery from reactive to proactive, thereby, promising a yet unforeseen level of quality. In this paper, we ask how to successfully design proactive business event services in the Estonian company registration portal. We investigate current problems of this e-service as encountered by Estonian entrepreneurs. We conduct qualitative interviews with experts from the government and micro-business owners that use the registration portal. Based on the findings, we give a set of recommendations for designing proactive business event services in the public sector.

Introduction

All major life and business events, such as acquiring education, getting a job, starting a family, or starting a company, demand for interactions with the government via various separately developed services that are provided by different state agencies or local governments. Thus, the citizen needs to communicate with multiple authorities and needs to visit various web-portals to get things done. Due to the overall demand for government services to become more efficient and customer-oriented, countries with more advanced e-governments such as Estonia [START_REF]Interpellation on e-Government Developments[END_REF], New Zealand [START_REF]Better Public Services -Improving Interaction with Government[END_REF][START_REF]Service Innovation Work Programme[END_REF][START_REF]SmartStart a new type of service[END_REF], and Taiwan [5][START_REF] Linders | Proactive e-governance: Flipping the service delivery model in Taiwan[END_REF][START_REF] Linders | Proactive e-governance: Flipping the service delivery model from pull to push in Taiwan[END_REF] have started to look into providing proactive services based on and triggered by life and business events. A proactive service groups together several services related to the same life event or business event, so that, for the service user, they appear as a single service that ideally functions automatically or with a minimum of interaction.

Proactive services are a contemporary topic in e-government service provision. As early as in 2011, the e-Government Program of Taiwan 2011-2016 [5] contains proactive services as a strategic element:

"Proactive One-stop Service: We are simplifying service processes and integrating interagency services from a life cycle and overall service perspective, which let us provide the public with one-stop end-to-end government services." [5] (1)

In Estonia, the notion of proactive service entered regulations. Since May 2017, it appears in regulation no. 88 (Principles for Managing Services and Governing Information) as follows:

" §2(3) Proactive services are the direct public services provided by an authority on its own initiative in accordance with the presumed will of persons and based on the data in the databases belonging to the state information system. Proactive services are provided automatically or with the consent of a person." [START_REF]Principles for Managing Services and Governing Information[END_REF] (2) Despite all of this, only a few studies exist on the subject; and theories on proactive services are emerging only recently. In this paper, we aim at determining the necessary requirements for successfully designing proactive business event services. Estonia strategically aims at developing proactive services, compare with [START_REF]Principles for Managing Services and Governing Information[END_REF][START_REF]Interpellation on e-Government Developments[END_REF]. One behalf of this, it is planned to renew the already existing company registration portal (CRP) by 2025. An objective of our research is to support the designers of the new CRP services, so that the new CRP would adhere better to the needs of the users. We claim that many of the findings are of general nature, so that they can be useful also for other countries that want to develop proactive services.

We target the following overall research question:

• How to design proactive business event services for the new Estonian company registration portal?

In service of the overall research question, we aim at answering the following auxiliary research questions:

• What requirements should proactive business event services meet?

• What features stakeholders expect from the future service?

For the purpose of this research, we have conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with experts from the four public agencies that are involved as stakeholders in the renewal of the company registration portal, i.e., the Ministry of Finance (MoF), the Ministry of Economics and Communications (MoEC), the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the Centre of Registers and Information Systems (CRIS) and, furthermore, with three owners of micro businesses who use the company registration portal. We start with a discussion of related work in Sect. 2. In Sect. 3, we provide an overview of the Estonian company registration portal. In Sect. 4, we aim at answering the auxiliary research questions. In Sect. 5, we aim at answering the overall research question. We briefly discuss future research directions in Sect. 6 and finish with a conclusion in Sect. 7.

Related Work

In the emerging notion of proactive service, two established concepts of e-government service design are amalgamated, i.e., the concept of life/business events and the concept of proactivity. Estonian regulations distinguish between proactive services and event services, where the concept of event service is used to gather certain aspects of proactive services, compare also with (2), as follows:

" §2(4) Event services are the direct public services provided jointly by several authorities so that a person would be able to perform all the obligations and exercise all the rights conferred on the person due to an event or situation. An event service compiles several services (hereinafter component service) related to the same event into a single service for the user." [START_REF]Principles for Managing Services and Governing Information[END_REF] (3) Henceforth, we rather do not want to use the term event service and want to speak about proactive services only. However, we still want to talk about proactive business event services as opposed to proactive life event services. Also, our interviewees use the term event service.

Wimmer [START_REF] Wimmer | A European perspective towards online one-stop government: the eGOV project[END_REF] and Wimmer and Tambours [START_REF] Wimmer | Online one-stop government: A working framework and requirements[END_REF] explain life events or life episodes as an important service design metaphor that helps to increase citizen orientation of e-government services. The events in this metaphor include not only "human" life events but also business events that are also called business situations in [START_REF] Wimmer | A European perspective towards online one-stop government: the eGOV project[END_REF][START_REF] Wimmer | Online one-stop government: A working framework and requirements[END_REF]. The orientation towards life/business events is a convenient requirement elicitation tools for e-services, but not only; beyond that, it provides a metaphor for structuring e-services portals. Orientation towards life/business events is an essential ingredient of proactive service design [START_REF] Linders | Proactive e-governance: Flipping the service delivery model in Taiwan[END_REF][START_REF] Linders | Proactive e-governance: Flipping the service delivery model from pull to push in Taiwan[END_REF][START_REF] Sirendi | Bringing service design thinking into the public sector to create proactive and user-friendly public services[END_REF][START_REF] Sirendi | Designing proactive public services as sociotechnical systems by using agent-oriented modelling[END_REF][START_REF] Sirendi | A conceptual framework for effective appropriation of proactive public e-services[END_REF][START_REF] Schuppan | One stop government: Stalled vision or a matter of design? empirical findings from social services in Germany[END_REF].

In [START_REF] Vintar | The concepts of an active life-event public portal[END_REF], Vintar and Leben report on the prototypical implementation of a lifeevent portal for the Republic of Slovenia. The quality of the Slovenian life-event portal has also been analyzed by Vintar et al. [START_REF] Vintar | Benchmarking the quality of Slovenian lifeevent portals[END_REF], compare also with [START_REF] Kunstelj | Evaluating the progress of e-government development: A critical analysis[END_REF].

The case study of e-government in Singapore [START_REF] Srivastava | Citizen trust development for e-government adoption: Case of Singapore[END_REF] by Srivastava and Teo reveals that proactive provision of information is a main factor in increasing citizens' trust in e-government services.

For Dunleavy et al. [START_REF] Dunleavy | New public management is dead -long live digital-era governance[END_REF] pro-activity is part of transcending new public management. Here, proactivity is about anticipating citizens' needs, e.g., "using feasible algorithms, agencies can then proactively try to match their services to meet citizens' needs or the key risks to policy" [START_REF] Dunleavy | New public management is dead -long live digital-era governance[END_REF]. In [START_REF] Linders | From e-government to we-government: Defining a typology for citizen coproduction in the age of social media[END_REF], Linders identifies "proactive information dissemination" [START_REF] Linders | From e-government to we-government: Defining a typology for citizen coproduction in the age of social media[END_REF] as a key ingredient in moving from a stage of customer-to-government (C2G), or "citizen sourcing" [START_REF] Linders | From e-government to we-government: Defining a typology for citizen coproduction in the age of social media[END_REF], to a stage of government-to-customer, or "government as platform" [START_REF] Linders | From e-government to we-government: Defining a typology for citizen coproduction in the age of social media[END_REF].

Linders, Liao and Wang [START_REF] Linders | Proactive e-governance: Flipping the service delivery model in Taiwan[END_REF][START_REF] Linders | Proactive e-governance: Flipping the service delivery model from pull to push in Taiwan[END_REF] explain that proactive services are about transforming e-service delivery from a pull to push model. They identify administrative effectiveness and efficiency, quality of e-services and, on behalf of this, quality of life for citizens as the objectives for introducing proactive services. They report on three cases of e-government initiatives in Taiwan: (i) the so-called e-housekeeper initiative, an integrated messaging platform of the government agencies, (ii) the proactive citizen hotline of the city of Taipei [START_REF] Chen | Reinventing government through on-line citizen involvement in the developing world: A case study of Taipei city mayor's e-mail box in Taiwan[END_REF], and (iii) a pilot program in decreasing digital divide.

In [START_REF] Sirendi | Bringing service design thinking into the public sector to create proactive and user-friendly public services[END_REF][START_REF] Sirendi | Designing proactive public services as sociotechnical systems by using agent-oriented modelling[END_REF], Sirendi and Taveter conduct a concept study on proactive service design, including a prototypical implementation, for the family benefits system of the Estonian National Social Insurance Board. A main objective of the proactive service design in [START_REF] Sirendi | Bringing service design thinking into the public sector to create proactive and user-friendly public services[END_REF][START_REF] Sirendi | Designing proactive public services as sociotechnical systems by using agent-oriented modelling[END_REF] is user centricity as a key rationale of service design [START_REF] Shostack | How to design a service[END_REF][START_REF] Shostack | Designing services that deliver[END_REF][START_REF] Kimbell | Designing for service as one way of designing services[END_REF][START_REF] Stickdorn | This is Service Design Thinking -Basics, Tools, Cases[END_REF]. In [START_REF] Sirendi | A conceptual framework for effective appropriation of proactive public e-services[END_REF], Sirendi et al. analyze two concrete e-government services with respect to current shortcomings and their potential for proactive service design. The first is about providing services for parents of disabled children in the Estonian e-services portal 4 ; the second is the Australian mobile web-application Ask Izzy5 that provides services and support for the homeless. On the basis of this analysis, guidelines for introducing proactive e-services are created.

Schuppan and Köhl [START_REF] Schuppan | One stop government: Stalled vision or a matter of design? empirical findings from social services in Germany[END_REF] consider research in proactive services (proactive government) in [START_REF] Schuppan | One stop government: Stalled vision or a matter of design? empirical findings from social services in Germany[END_REF], as relevant for meeting citizens' expectations towards egovernment services and e-government service portals.

The Estonian Company Registration Portal

Estonia is strong in providing public e-services for businesses. Almost everything can be done online -quick and easy -starting a business, declaring taxes, changing data etc. 6 However, the provision of business services is decentralized and distributed over multiple agencies and portals. In order to fulfill all of their legal duties, business owners need to move between several platforms and registries, each with a different design and requirements. One of the most used platforms is the company registration portal of the Centre of Registers and Information Systems (CRIS), that provides a secure and convenient platform for entrepreneurs to start a business, submit documents and change information to the e-business register. The system holds information on all legal persons registered in Estonia. It allows private persons to start a company and legal persons to establish new enterprises. All Estonian citizens can log into the CRP with their ID-cards or mobile IDs and, soon, also with smart IDs 7 . The CRP is available since 2007; but it is not required to use the CRP for starting a company, i.e., it is still possible to do this the conventional way via a notary; although, this is much more expensive and time-consuming (it takes around five days to set up a company instead of two hours). 8 Figure 1 shows the current, rather simple process of establishing a private limited company -the most common type of business in Estonia. Upon entering the portal, the user needs to start an application for registering a new enterprise. He needs to specify its type (private limited company, sole proprietorship, limited partnership, general partnership, or non-profit). Then, the user needs to provide additional information such as the name of the business, its statute, persons involved, or the main area of activity. The application must be signed digitally, and state fee needs to be paid electronically. Upon that, an entry into the business register is made.

However, the overall process is not as simple as it appears on first sightand this deserves some remarks. In addition to the CRP registration, companies need to fulfill more obligations with respect to other agencies and portals such as registering in the e-taxation portal, getting a VAT number or registering their employees. If the area of business is subject to specific regulations as, e.g., in the construction industry or the food industry, a business need to submit also a notice or needs to apply for a license in the register of economic activities. Furthermore, registering a company in the CRP is only possible if all the persons that have been involved in its establishment (members of the management board, founders etc.) are able to digitally sign the establishing application and the respective documents -otherwise, the registration has to be done with the notary. Fig. 1. As-is model of starting a company in the Estonian company registration portal.

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8 https://www.rik.ee/en/international/e-business-register

Results

We have conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with the Estonian deputy governmental CIO from the Ministry of Economics and Communications (MoEC), a project manager from the Ministry of Finance (MoF), an e-governance team leader from the Centre of Registers and Information Systems (CRIS), and a further expert from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Furthermore, we conducted three additional interviews with owners of micro businesses who use the CRP, in order to understand the needs and expectations of one of its main target groups.

The interviews have been conducted in November 2018. All but one interview have been conducted one-on-one, face-to-face. One interview has been conducted via email. All interviews have been conducted in Estonian to simplify communication and to avoid translation errors. Afterwards, the interviews have been transcribed and translated.

We analyzed the interviews with respect to five areas: (i) the state of business service provision, (ii) the functionality of the CRP, (iii) event-based service provision, (iv) level of bureaucracy and (v) barriers to further improvements.

One of the main issues confirmed by all interviewees is that services are distributed over multiple agencies and platforms, which makes the service provision less user-friendly for entrepreneurs. The interviewee from the MoF claimed that, due to the many websites, entrepreneurs can easily get confused about where to find the desired information: "The main problem is that services are dispersed and that is not user-friendly. The entrepreneur has to orientate himself in different websites and sometimes does not even know where to go or does not know all his obligations."

A few interviewees brought out that the CRP works pretty well, but that it is old. The interviewee from the MoEC was rather critical and claimed that the portal is outdated: "It is not great -according to today's standards. It was built in 2008 or something. It is old and can become much better. But it is going to be great, they are moving towards it."

With respect to event-based logic, the interviewees seemed to have a good idea of what can be achieved with this. The interviewee from the CRIS explained how event-based service provision can help to offer personalized services: "The idea is that the environment is so clever that it can provide services that are important to that company. For example, I am interested in Harju county or enterprises with more than a million Euro turnover. With these indicators, we can provide a very personalized approach to utilizing all the information in order to gauge the best contact and relevance to the business."

Then, we asked the entrepreneurs about the level of bureaucracy. In general, the interviewees do not feel that the state asks too much information. At the same time, since proactive service provision has not been discussed widely, people generally do not know how things could be done differently. However, two interviewees mentioned that both of them have already forgotten some deadline, which indicates that the notification system could be improved.

With respect to barriers to the introduction of proactively, three project members mentioned the importance of data security. This indicates that it needs extra attention on that. One project member mentioned that a similar in the past project suffered organizational issues such as lack of clear communication. This should be kept in mind for any project that aims at introducing proactive services. The interviewee from the MoE stated: "The Data Protection Inspectorate (DPI) is the key player in creating event services. Things need to be talked through on how to do thing. Data protection must be in the focus." Not all characteristics of good service design [START_REF] Shostack | How to design a service[END_REF][START_REF] Shostack | Designing services that deliver[END_REF][START_REF] Kimbell | Designing for service as one way of designing services[END_REF][START_REF] Stickdorn | This is Service Design Thinking -Basics, Tools, Cases[END_REF] have been implemented in the CRP. There is need for a change. However, the issues can be fixed by providing proactive event-based services. As a conclusion, we summarize benefits of implementing proactive business event in Table 1.

Table 1. Benefits of implementing proactive business event services.

Benefit Explanation

Improved business environment

Proactive and automated services allow entrepreneurs to focus and to invest more time and effort into their core competencies, i.e., freeing them from dealing with administrative obligations.

Better user experience

A precondition of proactive event-based service provision is better cooperation of state agencies and their information systems. Better interoperability of state information systems [START_REF] Kalja | The first ten years of X-road[END_REF][START_REF] Paide | On the systematic exploitation of the Estonian data exchange layer X-road for strengthening public private partnerships[END_REF] allows for designing a convenient one-stop-shop service. Once-only principle [START_REF] Wimmer | SCOOP4C: Reducing administrative burden for citizens through once-only -vision and challenges[END_REF][START_REF] Wimmer | Once only principle: Benefits, barriers and next steps[END_REF] Duplication of data is reduced. Entrepreneurs do not have to submit the same data several times, as cross-usage of data increases. Better data quality Since state agencies automatically gather data from companies, the change also increases the data quality. This enables policy makers to make decisions based on more accurate data. Anonymous data should be shared with them as well, so that entrepreneurs can also benefit from this.

Increased awareness of service provision

Information and services can be found in a single place which makes life easier for all associations. Better overview of companies Since all the information is in a single place, entrepreneurs have a better overview of the current status of their company.

Table 1 lists the benefits of proactive services with respect to service quality.

There might be some further, more indirect benefits on behalf of the improved service quality. First, the convenient and simple business environment could attract more people to become entrepreneurs. Second, it is advantageous for the reputation of Estonia: using an innovative approach such as proactive services is in line with Estonia's standing as a leading-edge IT-country. Furthermore, the resulting simpler business environment could attract foreign capital and more e-residents [START_REF] Tammpuu | Transnational digital identity as an instrument for global digital citizenship: The case of Estonia's e-residency[END_REF][START_REF] Kotka | Estonian e-residency: Benefits, risk and lessons learned[END_REF].

Recommendations

When it comes to the introduction of proactive e-services, it is important that all stakeholders interact with each other throughout the project to gain a mutual understanding of their needs. For a proactive business event service, in order to be effective, a single sign-on authentication process should be used. Furthermore, the once-only principle (TOOP) [START_REF] Wimmer | SCOOP4C: Reducing administrative burden for citizens through once-only -vision and challenges[END_REF][START_REF] Wimmer | Once only principle: Benefits, barriers and next steps[END_REF] should be followed. All technical aspects take considerable time; that is why it is recommended to tackle these issues early. At the same time, it is important to keep data security in mind, which plays a large role in creating interactive portals. It is advised to involve a data security officer early. The portal should have a scalable design so that new features can be easily integrated. Furthermore, it is advised to have a state-wide agreement that clarifies which services are grouped under which event. This enables easier communication between the involved state agencies and enables a clear schema for users. A similar agreement should be used for the triggering points of proactivity. With respect to this, is also advised to divide business services into three categories: (i) services that are provided automatically, (ii) services that allow for opting out, and (iii) services that require to opt in. If the state could divide all services into such categories in its regulations, the implementation of proactive services would become much smoother. Figure 2 proposes a to-be process model of starting a company in the CRP, compare also with the as-is process in Fig. 1. As the first step, the user needs to provide basic information (company name, area of activity etc.). Then, the system asks whether it may gather information from other state databases. If not, the user can proceed with the application as shown in the as-is process in Fig. 1. Such opt-out from proactive service provision is important -at least if the system is in its early phases. In case that a foreigner wants to start a company, such opt-out is essential. Otherwise, i.e., it the user agrees, the system queries multiple other databases and registries. The system checks whether any company stakeholders have any business bans. If not, the system automatically makes a request to the Estonian Tax and Customs Board 's (ETCB) system to open an e-taxation account and freeze state fee payment from the bank account provided to the ETCB. The payment will not be made immediately, i.e., not before the user digitally signs the application. As the next step, the system checks whether the company operates in a field that is subject to special requirements and must be registered in the Register of Economic Activities (REA). If so, it provides a possibility for making the necessary amendments. The system moves on to a validation and, possibly, correction of the data. Then, the system asks the user to digitally sign. Then, the system sends a notification to the bank to unfreeze the state fee. Then, it sends another request to create a company bank account. After the company bank account is created, the system sends a request to the ebusiness register for entering a new company. Here, it is necessary to agree with the private sector, i.e., the banks, to keep the system as functional as possible.

Future Directions

Proactive services have been described as a paradigm shift from pull to push. A closer look reveals that this is a slightly odd metaphor. In established portals, the citizen pulls the service from the government, whereas, with proactive services, the government pushes the service to the citizen. But, in that narrative, a change of perspective happens, i.e., from the citizen to the government. If the story is told, consistently, from the citizen's perspective, the essence of the proactive service paradigm should be coined as from pull to pushed. Of course, from pull to pushed does not sound so nice any more. But that is exactly the point: What we see, based on previous experience [START_REF] Muldme | A survey on customer satisfaction in national electronic ID user support[END_REF], is, that we should care to consider the user not merely as a consumer/customer, but also as a citizen. There is a need for deep and discoursive [START_REF] Habermas | Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action[END_REF] research of user adoption of proactive services. In user adoption studies it can easily happen that we are biased in favor of project success, i.e., we consider user concerns as critical for the project but sometimes stop in analyzing the concerns behind the concerns [START_REF] Schein | Organizational Culture and Leadership[END_REF].

As a concrete next step in this direction, we will conduct a survey9 on the impact of digital initiatives. We are interested, in how much and in what respect digital transformation will impact our societies, governments, economies, and daily lives and work. Among other recent digital initiatives, we will ask this, in particular, with respect to proactive services, including emerging topics such as smart business processes [35][START_REF] Draheim | Smart Business Process Management[END_REF][START_REF] Mendling | Challenges of smart business process management: An introduction to the special issue[END_REF] and automatic decision making (ranging from basic administrative tasks to automatic court case decisions).

Conclusion

In this paper, we investigated the current situation in business e-service provision in the Estonian company registration portal, in order to be able to understand the requirements for designing proactive business event services. The current situation shows direct negative factors such as a high level of bureaucracy and little user-centricity. Seven interviews with stakeholders have been conducted to learn about these issues, i.e., with four members of government authorities plus three micro business owners, who are considered as main beneficiaries of the system. The interviewees provided relevant feedback on stakeholders' needs and for requirements of future proactive services.

Life events are an established metaphor that helps to increase the citizen orientation of e-government services and portals. As such, they are not about triggering services. It can be said, that only with proactive services, life events become live. Proactivity is an established e-government best practice in the design of government information portals. Only with proactive services, proactivity is used transactional -beyond mere dissemination of information. Therefore, it can be said, that only with proactive services, proactivity becomes active.

Proactive services have been characterized as paradigm shift from pull to push, however, actually, from the citizens' perspective, it is a paradigm shift form pull to pushed. Therefore, further research is needed in user adoption of proactive services. This research needs to be deep and discoursive, in particular, we must take care that the user is not only considered as a consumer in such research, but also as a citizen.

Fig. 2 .

 2 Fig. 2. To-be model for starting a company in the Estonian company registration portal.

Register User in Company Registration Portal Assisant judge at Tartu County Court Bank

							Digitally sign
						Yes	application
	Log in to CRP	Application for starting a new company	Validation of data			Confirm application	Pay state fee	Send application for validation
					Is information inserted correctly?	No	edit/add information
			Yes	make an entry to the CCR	send user via email information to
	Validate the
	provided
	information
		Everyhing correct?	No	Send ruling via email
							Send payment
							confirmation to
							CRP
							payment
							Payment to
							Ministry of
							Finance

Central Commercial Register User in Company Registration Portal e-Business Register Register or Economic Activities Bank Estonian Tax and Customs Board

	Continue with the log in to CRP	Application for starting a new company	Permission for system to gather information and pay state fee proactively and autmoatically	Yes No	Query into Business registry	Open e-Tax account and freeze state fee payment from account	Is the company subject to special requirements?	No Yes	System adds all information to application	Validation of data by both system and user	Is everything filled correctly?	Yes No	data/contacts/bank infromation about Add/edit Digitally sign application	Send information to bank	Receive information on creation bank account create company Request to bank account
	application as shown in As-Is model			Message on derminating the				Request notice or license from REA				accounts	Request to enter company
					application											in the Business
																register
	Receive information request	Any business bans on	Yes	Application denied											Request received, company in the register
		persons involved?	No	Send information
					back to CRP
												Create a license		Send to CRP application
										Yes
								Receive request
									subject to Is the company	No	Create a notice		Sent to CRP application
									license?
	Receive request		Open account for using e-Tax platform	Request bank to freeze state fee account on given bank		Send back to CRP information									Information received
																Send
					Freeze amount on current bank account for state fee payment		Wait for user	Receive confirmation that user has signed application	Send payment to Ministry of Finance			Receive request	Create company bank account	information to CRP	Send information to ETCB
						to digitally sign
							application

www.eesti.ee

https://askizzy.org.au/

https://e-estonia.com/

As of May 2019, there are around 127.600 active enterprises and 9.500 apartment associations in Estonia.

together with Capgemini Germany (Business & Technology Solutions Public Sector), Mitshubishi UFJ (Research & Consulting)


Titiana-Petra Ertiö

Pekka Tuominen

Mikko Rask

Turning Ideas into Proposals: A Case for Blended Participation during the Participatory Budgeting Trial in Helsinki

Keywords: participatory budgeting, co-creation, technology, civic participation

Balancing between online-offline stages of participatory procedures is a delicate art that may support or hinder the success of participatory democracy. Participatory budgeting (PB), in particular, is generally rooted in online platforms, but as our case study on the City of Helsinki PB trial suggests, face-toface events are necessary to engage targeted and often times less resourceful actors in the process. Based on a longer-term participant observation, covering the PB process from its early to ideation phase to the current stage of proposal development for the final vote, we argue that the process has thus far been successful in blending online-offline components, largely supported by the active support of borough liaisons who have served as navigators between the different stages. From the point of co-creation, different stages of the PB process (ideation, co-creation) call for different strategies of online-offline participation. Effective mobilization of marginalized actors and interactions between public servants and citizens seem to benefit from face-to-face processes, while city-wide voting and discussion can effectively occur in the online platform.

Introduction: Participatory budgeting, co-creation, and participatory technologies

Currently, cities seek ways to increase transparency in their operations and service delivery, while at the same time ensure that taxpayer euros are put to work where they are most needed. Whether addressed as civic engagement [START_REF] Gilman | Participatory Budgeting and Civic Tech: The revival of Citizen Engagement[END_REF], democratic innovation [START_REF] Godwin | Studying Participatory Budgeting: Democratic Innovation or Budgeting Tool?[END_REF] or hacking the budget [START_REF] Schuler | A Hacking atlas: holistic hacking in the urban theater[END_REF], participatory budgeting (PB) has reached diffusion in several countries across the globe. PB facilitates structures that enable citizens to propose ideas, develop them into proposals together with public servants, gain support and vote on proposals they consider important for their communities.

Indeed, the "travel of participatory budgeting" has been intensive. Cabannes and Lipietz [START_REF] Cabannes | Revisiting the democratic promise of participatory budgeting in light of competing political, good governance and technocratic logics[END_REF] identify three phases of PB evolution. The years 1989 to 1997 were a period of experimentation, when the concept was invented in Porto Alegre, and introduced to few other Brazilian cities. In the next phase, variations of PB were generated and it was spread to more than 130 Brazilian municipalities. Since the beginning of 2000s, a phase of expansion and profound diversification followed. In that time, PB travelled throughout Latin America to Europe and North America, and most recently, Asia including China. Overall, more than 3,000 instances of PB across 40 countries have been identified [START_REF] Cabannes | Revisiting the democratic promise of participatory budgeting in light of competing political, good governance and technocratic logics[END_REF].

Diversification of the PB has resulted in different underpinning logics and models. Cabanne and Lipietz [START_REF] Cabannes | Revisiting the democratic promise of participatory budgeting in light of competing political, good governance and technocratic logics[END_REF] distinguish political, technocratic and governance oriented PB. They also refer to the different organizational underpinnings, including territorially, thematically and actor-based models. Sintomer et al. [START_REF] Sintomer | Participatory Budgeting in Europe: Democracy and Public Governance[END_REF] have identified six different PB models -participatory democracy, proximity democracy, participatory modernisation, multi-stakeholder participation, neo-corporatism, community developmentbased on the different contexts, normative frames, procedures, dynamics of collective action, relationships between conventional politics and participatory instruments, as well as strengths, weaknesses and challenges encountered.

Despite such differences, however, there are also commonalities in PB that make it look like a rather coherent tool, perhaps also explaining the attraction of cities worldwide to test and integrate it into municipal planning and decision making. First, PB calls for direct democratic participation of citizens. In particular, PB has proved to be effective in empowering less resourceful citizens and societal groups. Second, PB combines online and offline activities to create effective participatory platforms for the development of new urban ideas and solutions. Unlike some other democratic innovations (e.g. mini-publics), PB has effectively stimulated new technologies and services. Third, PB represents, in many ways, a recent turn of the public sector from a legal authority and service provider to an arena of co-creation, where "co-creation replaces public service monopolies and public-private competition with multi-actor collaboration and in so doing, it transforms the entire perception of the public sector" [6: 4]. Co-creation also facilitates the implementation of those PB proposals that receive most votes, unlike other government crowdsourcing initiatives [START_REF] Liu | Crowdsourcing government: Lessons from multiple disciplines[END_REF].

The prospect of combining PB and technological innovations includes both design and usage. Holston and colleagues [8: 576-7] performed a review of IT tools that support participatory democracy and citizens' engagement; the authors concluded that none of the solutions they reviewed includes the features needed for instrumenting participatory budgeting online and hence IT solutions are "limited and scattered". The authors developed a prototype called AppCivist-PB that includes a feature themed Citizen Assembly, which enables citizens to organize themselves in small groups and develop PB proposals. Interestingly, the authors emphasized the fact that the feature was inspired by the face-to-face meetings. Similarly, Gilman [START_REF] Gilman | Participatory Budgeting and Civic Tech: The revival of Citizen Engagement[END_REF] illustrates a case of PB using a crowdsourced platform called Citizinvestor: residents identified the community need, donated funds to purchase trash cans, and were also involved in their installations. The use of the crowdsourced platform falls under what the author defines as civic tech, "leveraging digital tools to improve democratic governance toward more transparency, inclusion, and participatory outcomes" [1: 2]. Thus, online participation on PB platforms translates some of the offline practices like the face-to-face meetings but also gauges which existing tools can be used to the same end as costumed solutions. In contrast, when it comes to the tools and technologies used for civic engagement, Firmstone and Coleman [START_REF] Firmstone | Public engagement in local government: The voice and influence of citizens in online communicative spaces[END_REF] argue that the engagement process is more important than the tools used to reach citizens.

Addressing the issue of digital skills is important to account for the time and effort devoted to develop PB proposals [START_REF] Gilman | Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America[END_REF]. Much of the PB studies have focused on the deliberative aspects as well as the characteristics of participants' who contributed in PB [START_REF] Godwin | Studying Participatory Budgeting: Democratic Innovation or Budgeting Tool?[END_REF], but their interplay with technology has received less attention. Studies reviewed by Goodwin [START_REF] Godwin | Studying Participatory Budgeting: Democratic Innovation or Budgeting Tool?[END_REF] show that the use of technology indeed increased the number of people who vote on PB proposals as was the case in New York and Vallejo; further, those studies also showed that highly-educated women participated more often and the percentages of Asian voters increased over time [2: 137-138].

Questions related to the choice of online and offline activities, the technology employed and the digital skills needed to participate impact who and how can participate. Evidence is scarce when it comes to PB instruments, but for instance, the study conducted by [START_REF] Pina | Comparing online with offline citizen engagement for climate change: Findings from Austria, Germany and Spain[END_REF] shows just how complex the phenomena is. The authors did not find any differences in demographics related to gender, income or political orientation but highly educated and non-immigrants participated more often both in online and offline participation activities. Younger, highly educated and non-immigrants were more prevalent online than offline [START_REF] Pina | Comparing online with offline citizen engagement for climate change: Findings from Austria, Germany and Spain[END_REF]. These results suggest that combining different types of participations across different activities helps public managers to broaden civic engagement.

Stortone & Cindio [12: 178] identify two problems of online citizen participation. First, the authors argue that the ICTs employed to engage citizens are "top-down", proprietary solutions designed to suit the purposes of the owners. Second, political representatives find it difficult to design effective and appropriate participatory processes regardless of the technology employed. The authors go further to argue that participatory budgeting addresses some of the issues around the advisory nature of citizen involvement, because proposals who receive vast support are actually implemented rather than only having a advisory nature. In a typical participatory budgeting process, citizens both contribute ideas and are involved in the final decisions.

More recently, such concerns have been addressed in the form of open-source software tailored for PB. The Decidim digital platform [START_REF]Decidim platform Homepage[END_REF] is a free and open-source platform designed for cities and other organizations that promote participatory democracy. Decidim is particularly scalable to participatory budgeting activities and has been used by several municipalities, including the City of Helsinki. One of the main features of the Decidim platform is organized around the PB stages: idea generation, proposal development, voting -all supported by deliberative features to comment and collaborate online. For the purposes of this paper, we will not detail the entire architecture of the Decidim platform, but rather we are interested in the interplay between the online and offline activities.

This article responds to Stortone & Cindio's [12: 179] call to evaluate the impact of participatory budgeting on citizen participation as a whole, both online and offline. We hope to contribute to this call with an elevated understanding of the benefits of blending online and offline engagement as it unfolded in the case of proposal development stage of the Helsinki participatory budgeting trial in 2018-2019. As more cities employ technology to engage the public on the one hand and participatory budgeting on the other, civic managers will find it useful to know how to integrate online and offline activities. Further, we are interested in understanding how the different online and offline aspects of PB contribute to its role as an instrument of co-creation, an important theoretical development that has received less attention than PB's deliberative nature. We formulate our research question as follows: How do online and offline activities blend during the early stages, the ideation stages, and proposal development stages of the PB process, to support meaningful co-creation?

This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the background to the participatory budgeting trial in Helsinki, elaborating also on the methods used to collect the data. Then, in Section 3, we present the results of our study and discuss the findings against our theoretical background. The last section concludes with an argument on hybrid participation to support meaningful co-creation within participatory budgeting processes.

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Helsinki's participatory budgeting process. Data and methods.

The City of Helsinki has set a budget of 4.4 million Euros to fund projects proposed by citizens through PB. This budget is divided in a general budget for the entire city plus seven districts that cover the entire municipality; districts' funds are set according to the number of residents. The participatory budgeting process in Helsinki is structured in the following sequential phases: 1) citizens generate ideas, 2) evaluation of ideas proposed against eligibility criteria (see below) by public officials in city departments, 3) development of ideas into proposals in co-creation workshops, 4) the city departments estimate the budget for proposals, 5) citizens vote on the proposals they wish to see implemented, and 6) implementation of the proposals. The PB process stresses ample opportunities for discussion and co-creation: among citizens, between citizens, public officials, and other stakeholders, both on the platform as well as face-to-face [14: 24-31].

Establishing a successful balance between online and offline activities results in a complex PB process [START_REF] Stortone | Hybrid participatory budgeting: Local democratic practices in the digital era[END_REF]. This section examines how the online-offline blend is elevated while moving chronologically from the launch of Helsinki PB to its current phase of proposal development. While a considerable part of the PB process depend on the work on the digital platform OmaStadi [START_REF]OmaStadi platform Homepage[END_REF] to document the ideas and proposals, Helsinki's PB process also emphasizes strongly face-to-face interaction at regular intervals.

The following analysis is based on a longer-term participant observation of the execution of the participatory budgeting in Helsinki 2018-2019. One of the researchers has conducted ethnographic fieldwork concentrating on the experiences of both participants and organisers of the process since its inception stage in 2017, paying special attention to the shifts in intensities between online and offline environments in the PB different stages. The qualitative data gathered through discussions, observation of different events and participation in a group developing one of the proposals has been supported by the observations of the other researchers, feedback from the participants -as faceto-face discussions, comments on the digital platform as well as comments on the various social media platforms. The authors are researchers in BIBU -Tackling Biases and Bubbles in Participation project that evaluates the Helsinki PB trial.

To start with, in the PB kick-off seminar held in May 2018, the online and offline participation was organised in a blended manner. It was possible to follow the seminar using the Helsinki Channel streaming service and to send comments real-time to a large screen that was centrally located on the stage. The screen was in active use and the topics expressed were frequently raised into the general discussion. However, the seminar was organised in a highly structured manner and some of the participants would have hoped to have the chance for more open-ended discussions.

An important way to facilitate synergies between online and offline activities was the establishment of the borough liaison positions (stadiluotsi, in Finnish). In May 2018, seven borough liaisons were hired by the City of Helsinki to facilitate citizen participation and to provide information about PB. Each of the seven districts of Helsinki (suurpiiri) was assigned their own borough liaison to enable smooth communication between citizens, the city administration, and other partners in the process. Borough liaisons became central actors with several roles in integrating online and offline activities when the local administration began to implement the PB trial.

Since May 2018, the borough liaisons have been very active in meeting citizens both on formal occasions (e.g. neighbourhood association meeting) and during informal face-to-face meetings in public libraries and other easily accessible spaces. A big part of the borough liaisons' time was used in helping the citizens use the OmaStadi platform as some of them were more willing to express their wishes verbally rather than filling in templates using the platform. The borough liaisons' role also extended to their capacity to reply to numerous emails and messages via social media platforms about PB. A significant part of their work took place on their Facebook profiles that were actively used to inform people about the ongoing process. The comment sections contained various questions about the conditions that PB ideas and suggestions have to meet as well as the timetable and the forthcoming events. Many of the people commenting had also met the borough liaisons face-to-face and used social media to continue discussions initiated in the meetings. This provided also a way for the followers to connect with one another while reacting to comments posted on the Facebook profiles. On the other hand, the number of followers of the borough liaisons' Facebook profiles has varied between 400 and 1000, suggesting that this form of digital communication has been a tool used very effectively but has a quite limited reach.

The ideation stage span from November until mid-December 2018. During the ideation stage of the PB, each of the borough liaisons hosted ideation events in their respective Helsinki region. These events provided personal support for crafting and brainstorming the ideas, meetings with neighbourhood associations and submit them to the OmaStadi platform. In addition, the City of Helsinki printed several brochures and posters to inform the citizens about PB stages and procedures, eligibility criteria, and next steps. In these face-to-face events, the emphasis was on including people who were not active in the online environments to the process. Borough liaisons provided IT support for citizens, specifically helped them sign in on the platform and complete the available template to submit an idea.

The offline aspect of the process was also enriched by a board game specifically designed to support the gathering of the new ideas. The game consists of a set of cards with various tasks and methods to support the ideation process. The logic behind employing the game was to both inform and encourage citizens to engage in a form of direct democracy they were not familiar with. The aim was to create a sociable atmosphere that would turn participants' attention into solving real problems affecting their communities, rather than concentrating on the complex bureaucracy and conditions for proposal acceptance. Borough liaisons organized several sessions that brought together hundreds of Helsinki residents from different backgrounds to sit down and go through the participatory process with its different dimensions over the course of one to two hours. The game was promoted enthusiastically as a new way to bring people together, provide fruitful encounters and extend the reach of participatory budgeting to people not familiar with it. However, some people who already filed ideas found the structure of the game disruptive and would have rather wanted to discuss their ideas in a direct way. The game has also been "given away" to residents and communities so that they can play it on their own. As the game contains instruction for facilitation, it can be played both as coordinated by the borough liaisons as well as regular citizens with their friends, families, or communities. The OmaStadi platform made it possible to support ideas and comment on them but these features were used seldomly. The ideation phase relied on face-to-face events and discussions and the input of ideas on the OmaStadi platform.

After the ideation events with the borough liaisons and the game sessions were over, participants had filled up 1274 ideas on the OmaStadi platform. Of these, 840 were selected by public officials to advance to the next stage as they have met the city's eligibility criteria (e.g. that fall under the municipal jurisdiction). The evaluation of ideas happened online on the OmaStadi platform, with each idea decisioned: either to advance it to the proposal stage or reject it. The rejected ideas received justifications for the decision, so citizens were informed about the specifics as to why their ideas were rejected.

The next phase consisted of PB proposal development (Omastadi raksat) and started in February 2019. Several workshops were organised, one in each municipal district hosted by the respective borough liaison. These workshops were attended by public officials from the city administration, who were invited to provide help to citizens to develop their ideas into proposals. The public officials were invited based on the themes present in the ideas submitted (e.g. parks and recreation, leisure services, youth services). The smooth functioning of these workshops was pre-determined by grouping ideas under specific themes; each theme sat at a table. Based on our participant observations at the workshops, there were clear differences depending on the composition of the participants and the facilitation. At times, the vividness of face-to-face interactions during the workshops enabled detailed communication in a group setting and led to effective decision-making that still relied on equal participation. Ideas submitted on the OmaStadi platform were developed either individually or merged with ideas having similar foci and in collaboration with the public officials and fellow participants. Cocreation took a highly practical shape during the proposal development events through the multiple interactions of citizens with public officials, liaisons, and those who commented or supported the ideas online. A separate corner for IT support was set up for the workshops; they drew long queues and frequent mentions about the bugs in the platform and how it is constantly developed to suit the PB project better. These IT support functions were designed to help those who need IT guidance.

We have gathered the data outlined above during our fieldwork on the PB trial. Our methods include participant observation and documentation. Two of the three authors have participated as Helsinki residents in the proposal development workshop in their own borough, in addition to attending other workshops in other boroughs as external evaluators. In the ideation phase, one of the authors has attended the workshops as researcher conducting ethnographic participant observation as mentioned above. In total, we've attended over ten ideation and proposal development events. All of the ten events have been organized and run by the City of Helsinki. In addition to participant observation, another method employed has been that of a case study, specifically an embedded case study [START_REF] Yin | Case Study Research: Design and Methods[END_REF]. We have followed the entire development of the PB process (case) and studied its different stages and events (several units within the case to use Yin's [START_REF] Yin | Case Study Research: Design and Methods[END_REF] terminology). Thus, the authors have followed the PB process during a longerterm from understanding the context in which PB evolved to the very concrete co-creation actions in the proposal development stage.

Results and discussion: Blending online and offline cocreation activities in Helsinki's PB trial

This section structures our observations from the field about blending online-offline activities in the Helsinki PB to support co-creation activities and discusses their implications against the theoretical framing outlined in the beginning of the article. The Helsinki PB process described in this article reviews Helsinki's first major PB trial. As a trial, the efforts to increase awareness and organize events, inform residents of the opportunity to participate, about the technicalities of the project have been extensive. In considering PB as a democratic innovation, the trial introduced new ways of soliciting ideas and co-creating them with residents as well as establishing ways to respond to citizens' ideas inside the city administration.

Following the PB process stages, particularly ideation and proposal development, online and offline activities blended concurrently. Each event sought to increase understanding of the PB process and lead to active participation on the OmaStadi platform. In the kick-off seminar, the questions sent via online tools supported and spurred the discussion present in the room. Ideas were formally submitted on the platform but the pre-stage -when citizens ideated what to submit -took sometimes place offline, for instance by playing the participation game. Ideas have been somewhat commented and supported on the OmaStadi platform, but discussions took mainly place offline in the events organized. In the development stage, the online-offline integration was most visible as citizens co-created their ideas with public officials after which they submitted their proposals on the OmaStadi platform. Further, the presence of IT support in the proposal development workshops facilitated capacity building for those less experienced with online tools. For certain demographics, the existence of IT support can be considered critical to their participation in PB. In contrast, idea selection -choosing ideas to be developed into proposals -took place entirely on the OmaStadi platform.

On an institutional level, creating roles that further the integration of online and offline activities and facilitate co-creation processes was vital to support citizens in the PB trial. Borough liaisons represented a new position created within the city administration to support the nascent PB ecosystem formed of citizens, public officials, nongovernmental organizations, communities, and groups. Much of the liaison's work consists of fieldwork and answering citizen queries online about the PB. Similarly, they guide and support citizens to submit and develop their ideas. Essentially, they act as facilitators and intermediaries between the city administration and citizens.

In this article, the focus is on the early stages of the PB process which, we argue, is critical for co-creation. It sets out the ideas, opportunities, and proposals that citizens initiate and co-create with the other actors involved in PB. Our results show that online and offline activities are seamlessly integrated but not in equal proportions in the PB process. There are PB stages at which both online and offline activities are blended such as ideation and proposal development. We find that offline, face-to-face events and workshops are meant to support the input of ideas and proposals on the OmaStadi platforms. While [START_REF] Holston | Engineering software assemblies for participatory democracy: the participatory budgeting use case[END_REF] detail how features on the online platform takes inspiration from face-to-face meetings, the Helsinki PB shows how the two can be integrated concurrently. All the documentation on the PB proposals is formally submitted via the platform OmaStadi platform. The IT support by the borough liaisons integrates the onlineoffline activities. However, the selection of ideas took place online. To sum up, we find that face-to-face meetings support the use of the platform, making the PB process also facilitate IT capacity building in addition to the democratic inclusion. This lets us appreciate the benefits of blended activities for PB as proposed by [START_REF] Gilman | Participatory Budgeting and Civic Tech: The revival of Citizen Engagement[END_REF][START_REF] Stortone | Hybrid participatory budgeting: Local democratic practices in the digital era[END_REF]. For this article, we have no quantitative data to detail the characteristics of the demographics who participated in PB; we recognize that this is a substantial limitation of our study. We intent to investigate the effect of the IT support provided for marginalized groups to develop the IT skills to be able to assess the digital equity of PB.

Following [START_REF] Torfing | Transforming the public sector into an arena for cocreation: barriers, drivers, benefits, and ways forward[END_REF], we observe that in the PB trial in practice, co-creative engagements are unequally organised. As mentioned, ideation and proposal development heavily rely on co-creation activities. Whether it is the participation game that help to ideate together or an idea a citizen had that received support and comments online and offline, the ideation stage opens the co-creation process. When ideas are decisioned, this is mainly the duty of public officials in city departments. Proposal development, on the other hand, makes co-creation between idea proponents and public officials an essential component to enrich citizens' proposals. The results highlight how co-creation developed in the specific instance of the Helsinki PB stages, contributing to a deeper understanding of the variation, national context, and different phases of the process [START_REF] Nabatchi | Understanding the diversity of coproduction: Introduction to the IJPA special issue[END_REF].

"Participatory budgeting is not […] a time-saving institution. It is resource intensive. Its civic appeal lies precisely in the deliberative process and the information ecosystem it creates" notes Hollie Gilman [10:3]. Indeed appreciating the online and offline activities in PB [START_REF] Gilman | Participatory Budgeting and Civic Tech: The revival of Citizen Engagement[END_REF][START_REF] Stortone | Hybrid participatory budgeting: Local democratic practices in the digital era[END_REF] on the one hand, and "transform[ing] the entire perception of the public sector" through co-creation [6: 4] on the other hand, requires particular attention to detail in facilitating social innovations, ideals of democratic governance, including transparency and inclusion.

Given that the PB case presented in this article is a trial, it has required considerable effort to create awareness about the opportunity it represents for citizens. Getting the PB process -like any participatory method -off the ground necessitates effort to get acquainted with the PB (for citizens) as well as managing the process (within the city administration and in terms of stakeholder management). The next PB round is expected to build and expand on the lessons learned in this trial. We anticipate that citizens' awareness will increase with each PB round and the efforts will shift towards other stages. As the PB trial progresses, one area of future research we will develop will be to determine who participated, assessing whether offline and online participants were the same and the effect of the alternating online-offline activities had on different demographic groups during the PB trial.

Conclusions

Participatory budgeting facilitates structures that enable citizens to propose ideas, develop them into proposals together with public servants, gain support and vote on proposals they consider important for their communities. Lately, dedicated technologies sustain participatory budgeting efforts, such as the Decidim platform. This article has reviewed the case of the Helsinki participatory budgeting trial, illustrating how onlineoffline activities have supported co-creation activities in the Helsinki. We found that online and offline activities are integrated seamlessly during the early stages of the process and that co-creation activities tend to aggregate in the ideation and proposal development phases that coincide with face-to-face events. Offline activities support the creation and development of formal submissions on the OmaStadi platform. Central to supporting these activities are borough liaisons, who support the PB process online and offline.

The results of this analysis will contribute to a better understanding of "deliberative systems" [START_REF] Dryzek | Deliberative democracy and climate governance[END_REF] and participatory ecosystems more generally. As some studies have suggested [START_REF] Rask | Communicating about biodiversity, public engagement, and climate change[END_REF], the field of public participation has recently encountered a shift from a focus on individual participatory events to a focus on more systemic and institutional considerations. Core issues are how to connect formal institutions with informal networks and civil society, in a meaningful way, thus engaging different discourses with each other. As our analysis has suggested, adding new types of intermediaries, such as borough liaisons, can help in such development, by using participatory technologies combined with direct communication with the citizens involved.

Yet another important contribution of this line of research is gaining more detailed understanding of the factors contributing to more inclusive and equal strategies in designing and implementing participatory processes. Previous studies have paid attention on factors such as framing of the issues, marketing of the events, differences in citizen recruitment strategies and socio-demographic variables [see e.g. [START_REF] Pina | Comparing online with offline citizen engagement for climate change: Findings from Austria, Germany and Spain[END_REF][START_REF] Goldschmidt | The role of gender in global citizen deliberation[END_REF]. This paper has raised the issue that the right balance between online-offline participation can also contribute to better involvement strategies. Our limited data did not allow drawing exact conclusions on this matter, but we observe that future studies should pay more close attention on this aspect of participatory democracy innovations.

Acknowledgements: This study has received funding from the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland (consortium decision number 312710, BIBU-Tackling Biases and Bubbles in Participation, sub-project number 312796). The authors would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers for their comments, that have greatly developed this study.