Involving European citizens to the political decision-formation process.
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Categories: Health, Energy, Administration, Learning, Logistics, Security, Students, Tourism, Transport, Business, Cities, Government, Communications, Consultations, Surveys
Challenge
Our challenge was to create a platform that would help make the European Union decision-formation process more participative, more transparent and more efficient. We wanted to use this tool to consult 150,000 European citizens in six languages, asking them: "What areas in your daily life should the EU focus its energies on?”
Solution
‘www.tellBarroso.eu’ web service is a platform that allowed citizens to: enter their own proposal as free-form answers. Moreover, it provided citizens with peer evaluation tools to prioritise proposals of other people and automated analysis tools to combine multi-lingual qualitative and quantitative input given by the participants.
Results
153,479 participants, 12,092 proposals, 123,980 proposal evaluations and 576,914 proposal views and 8,660 mentions (according to Google) about the project in blogs, discussion forums, and new sites.
Full results and case description available here: http://thinkingeurope.eu/tellBarroso
Target Markets
Governments or other organizations with large numbers of stakeholders.
Specific Interests In Meeting Partnering
Finding local partners to help us to market this standard software service for governments or other organizations with large number of stakeholders involved in decision-formation processes.
Specific Interests In Customer Contacts
Governments at EU, national and sub-national level.