eDem/ePart overview 2011, F.Henderson, ParticiTech

1. Dancing with debt, devolution and digital Fraser Henderson www.particitech.com March 2011

3. On the rise On the fall Digital by default Digital divide Customer Insight Blogging Non-PC Digital skills / literacy training Green ICT / print Webcasting Superfast The council website Cloud computing Community IT Health & Police solutions E-Democracy Social Media Centralisation

4. Primary access methods

5. Mobile internet trends

6. If you feel strongly about an issue..

7. ePetitioning history (UK) Scottish Parliament: 1999 – Napier University (ITC), Edinburgh Bristol & Kingston : 2004 – Local eDem National Project (via ITC & NLC) Bundestag : 2005 (ITC) No.10 downing street : 2006 – MySociety (end 2010) Bristol revamp & National Assembly for Wales : 2008 Europetition (EC funded) : 2009 - MAC & Public-i 2010: New supplier market emerges {5 or 6 agencies} 2011 : New system for UK Parliament? : No.10 re-launch?

8. ePetition Appraisal For Against Transparency and feedback Escalation in the democratic process Data collection Speed of raising and collecting Pre-petitioning phase Improves validation Catching media interest Duplicates Astroturfing “ Graffiti” – time consuming Moderation? Raises expectation of a response

15. Tip of the iceberg challenges Language and translation Thresholds and the certainty of validation Data protection Guaranteeing a response from partner agencies Council versus the world Politicking

16. Early adopters

18. Volumes (end 2009) In Bristol , 101 ePetitions since 2004 Over 40,000 signatures (Population c.400,000) In Birmingham : 9 petitions, 960 signatures (since May 2009). 25,000 hits/month Since 2006, the No.10 site (to 2008) : Over 29,000 petitions have been submitted, of which over 8,500 are currently live and available for signing, over 6,000 have finished and 14,601 have been rejected outright. There have been over 5.8 million signatures, originating from over 3.9 million different email addresses. NB the set-up costs of the Downing Street site were £17,500 and the annual running costs are £109,000,

19. Europetition : European Parliament European Citizens Initiative (>1m signatures) Bristol 400,000 Kingston-upon-Thames 150,000 Birmingham City 1,000,000 North Lincolnshire 150,000 Norfolk 824.000

20. 2007 = 1,506 Europetitions Environmental issues, water, etc 288 Fundamental rights 226 Urbanisation 131 Education & cultural issues 103 Social Affairs & Discrimination 207 Internal Market & Consumers 192 Health 105 Justice 99 Transport issues & Infrastructure 88 Property & Restitution 72

21. Local vs Euro petitions 2009/10

22. Trans-European dimension

24. Expanding possibilities Multimedia evidence of citizen and committee work (photos / videos) Videoconferencing with petitioners, SMS signatures

25. What Next? Health Authorities? Police Authorities? Other agencies? Internally – staff petition managers? National aggregator / router? Petition maps? National ‘mood’ barometer?

26. Frågor?