Eirini-Renée Gkatsi@ddf25

As a founding member of the Digital Democracy Foundation, I’m committed to reimagining civic engagement across the European Union through inclusive, tech-enabled platforms. My mission: to harness digital innovation to empower citizens and underrepresented communities, ensuring their voices shape a more equitable and resilient Europe.

With nearly a decade of field experience in Cash-Based Interventions (CBI) across Greece, Slovakia, and Armenia, I specialize in designing community-driven protection systems that uphold dignity, autonomy, and inclusion. My work bridges humanitarian strategy with digital transformation, using data to drive accountability, responsiveness, and social cohesion.

I bring an interdisciplinary lens to hackathons—combining expertise in:

• Feedback & response mechanisms for real-time community engagement

• Participatory design for inclusive digital tools

• Documentation of promising practices to scale impact and foster transparency

I’m passionate about leveraging data ethics, human-centered design, and open-source collaboration to build tech that serves people—not just systems.

Beyond the field, I amplify youth-led and intercultural initiatives through platforms like UNAOC-IOM PLURAL+, Danube for Peace, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, and the International Youth Media Summit—bringing grassroots insights into global digital conversations.

Let’s build tech that listens, includes, and transforms.