Abstract: The implementation of digital technologies in people’s lives is not a simple and long process of social development. Lack of knowledge, lack of regulatory framework and experience in the use of information and telecommunication technologies is delaying the process of Ukraine joining the European Union. Based on the new opportunities that digitalization provides us, it is increasingly difficult to understand the terms and concepts that are an integral part of the digital society. In the process of writing the article, the content of the concept of participation, digitalization, electronic democracy, digital participation, representative and participatory democracy was considered. The list of participants in the participation process has been determined. The components of e-democracy presented by the Council of Europe and forms of participation are considered. The list of normative legal acts on the regulation of participation at the local level was analyzed. The possibilities that digitization will provide in the process of realizing the right of citizens to participate in public administration are considered. Problems that will be solved by digital participation in the future are highlighted. A list of problems in the field of digital participation has been defined, the solution of which is possible thanks to the proper implementation of the Concepts of the development of digital competences, electronic democracy and the development of the digital economy and society in Ukraine. Examples of the use of digital participation in the Ukrainian cities of Vinnytsia and Lviv were considered.