[silk] online petitions to gov.in
Does anyone have examples of online petitions addressed to a Government body (e.g. the PMO) that have been taken note of and acted upon? Did the number of signatures make a difference? Are there any government bodies that routinely take such petitions seriously? -- ams
Re: [silk] online petitions to gov.in
None, usually .. moveon.org etc have done all that nonsense before, stateside. Not had much effect that I know of. Even less of a point in India where how many people isn’t the question, who are the people is. No point in this kind of astroturf where X people sign on to send the same boilerplate to the same people. -Original Message- From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Abhijit Menon-Sen Sent: Monday, 9 November 2009 10:17 AM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] online petitions to gov.in Does anyone have examples of online petitions addressed to a Government body (e.g. the PMO) that have been taken note of and acted upon? Did the number of signatures make a difference? Are there any government bodies that routinely take such petitions seriously? -- ams
Re: [silk] online petitions to gov.in
I did help run an online petition campaign when Avnish Bajaj was arrested for the Delhi schoolgirl fellatio video advertised on eBay India thing which got a few thousand signatures, which then made the news, and he was then released, and the IT Act was implemented more knowledgably in a few places, Cybercrime cells were set up etc. I am not sure however of any cause-effect relationship :-) Certainly there was heightened awareness all around. I certainly do believe in the power of online petitions, though, as part of a broader campaign - especially if you can use the petitions to make it to the traditional news. My $0.02, Mahesh On 09-Nov-2009, at 10:17 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote: Does anyone have examples of online petitions addressed to a Government body (e.g. the PMO) that have been taken note of and acted upon? Did the number of signatures make a difference? Are there any government bodies that routinely take such petitions seriously? -- ams
