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Local Electronic Petitions Service 

The Unified Platform for Local e-Democracy (abbreviated as e-DEM) aims to provide citizens with easy and convenient access to several e-democracy tools. In particular, the platform combines the following services: "Local Electronic Petitions" developed by soft Xpansion

Project description 

The Unified Local Petitions System is an automated system that allows residents of a locality (village, district, territorial community, region) to initiate new and support existing petitions to local self-government bodies. Based on the solution, a system of petitions to the Cabinet of Ministers was developed, which allows citizens of the whole country to initiate and support petitions to the central executive authority 

Project website: petition.e-dem.ua


Functionality 

  • Electronic registration of citizens who want to create or sign a petition 
  • Possibility of creating a new electronic petition to local self-government bodies 
  • Informing citizens about the procedure for submitting electronic petitions, taking into account the specifics of a particular local self-government body 
  • Publication of created petitions and ensuring the possibility of collecting signatures in support of an electronic petition, recording the time of signing, taking into account the procedure established for a specific local self-government body (the deadline for collecting and the number of signatures) 
  • Ability to search for electronic petitions 
  • Transfer of petitions that have collected the required number of signatures for consideration to the relevant local self-government body, indicating information about the start and end date of collecting signatures, the total number and the list of persons who signed the electronic petition 
  • Transfer of electronic petitions that have not received the required number of signatures to the local self-government body for consideration as an electronic appeal 
  • Publication of information on the result of consideration of an electronic petition by a local self-government body
  • Publication on the official website of information about petitions that received the required number of votes within the established term  


Implementation results

  • An electronic system has been created that provides for online submission of petitions by citizens for consideration by a local self-government body, viewing and signing petitions that have already been submitted, thus influencing the formation of priorities in the decision-making process at the community level
  • 275 +* local self-government bodies connected to the system 
  • 30,000 +* petitions submitted 
  • 4,500 +* petitions have a response from the authority 
  • 2,800,300 +* collected signatures 
  • The solution is adapted for use on any platform that has modern browsers  
  • Optimized working with a large number of simultaneous users during parallel voting  
  • Possibility to configure parameters for each community (deadline for collecting signatures, number of signatures, authorization method – by mail, phone, or using BankID/EDS) 
  • The system meets all the necessary legal requirements

      

*As of December 2021 





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