Improving We The People
The White House recently launched We The People, a new e-petition tool that we believe can be an incredibly powerful way for the American people to express their ideas to the government. This feedback site is a place for those of us who care about creating a participatory and deliberative society to offer ideas and recommendations for the White House to ensure that We The People (a) incorporates a meaningful, transparent, healthy policy process for integrating public input, and (b) includes the functionality, usability, and design that can best enable the considered preferences of the American people to be heard.
Everyone is invited to post suggestions here on this feedback site for how to improve the White House’s petition process.
In response to a request from the WeThePeople team at the White House, we will summarize the results of this forum for them. We are in the process of generating a final document that will be signed off on by the convening organizations (and hopefully others) and shared with the White House.
We will request feedback from the White House on the usefulness of our recommendations as well as their implementation, and will share that information with you.
Convening Organizations: AmericaSpeaks, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD), International Association for Public Participation—USA (IAP2 USA), Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC), Open Forum Foundation.
How can the White House's e-petition website and process be improved?
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Allow comments on White House Responses
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By cutting the crap above and just post your question.
tops in efficiency
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Provide a public trouble ticket system, support forum, or bug tracker for issues with the platform
We The People seems to have embraced a release early and often approach to web development. I think this is actually a great approach, but it needs to be done so openly, to help set expectations and to manage feedback about problems or needed features. This is particularly true since the President has already pledged to make this platform open source for others to use. A public bug tracker is part of the backbone of an open source project and it should be for this service as well.
I shouldn't conflate the idea of a support forum and a software…
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Show participants how to write better petitions
Some petitions are poorly worded and not as good as they could be. Maybe there could be tools or instructions on the We the People website to provide participants with assistance of what makes a good/effective epetition.
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