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
