Do social networking groups support online petitions? Purpose – EPetitioning has been emerging as arguably the most important eParticipation institutional activity. This paper aims to provide some insights in... A Prosser,P Panagiotopoulos,S Sams,... - 《Transforming Government People Process & ...
On the 26th of March 2016 hundreds of mind-altering substances policy makers know little-to-nothing about will be made illegal. Many are not just drugs but keys to doors of experience that can transform and benefit this species and the people of this nation: doors the government wants firmly...
Tomorrow, the Scottish Parliament’s Petitions Committee will be hearing from members of the British Centre for Science Education (BCSE) and Scottish Secular Society (SSS). Earlier this year, the SSS started a petition urging the Scottish government issue guidance on the teaching of creationism in...
Any petition with more than 10,000 signatures on the parliament website gets a government response, and if one gets more than 100,000 signatures it is automatically considered for debate in Parliament. According to the BBC, the cross-party Commons petitions committee is due to meet next week ...
Made on the UK's official petitions website, the government is obliged to respond to petitions with more than 10,000 signatures, while parliament also considers such petitions for debate. If parliament does take up the issue, it will not be the first time UK politicianshave debatedbanning Trum...
This study was analyzed the UK e-petitions using machine analysis tools to identify the main reasons for public dissatisfaction with the UK's electrical energy initiatives. The e-petitions dataset was uploaded from the UK Government and Parliament website (the 33436 petitions for 2017-2020). For...
The energy industry also has a large number of “stranded middle” businesses which had not been previously eligible for the COVID-19 relief packages put forward by the Government, whether for small businesses with a revenue of less than £45 million (Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan ...
First, the UK government has its own petition website. The petitions hosted on there are explicitly directed to the government, and as such they are a very explicit form of unconventional political participation. Second, online petitions are widely used; Hansard reports that 28% of the public ...
Thank you (the Government now have to respond) By aimee on 29th January 2016 in News We’ve done it! We received 100,000 signatures on the “Petition for more research into brain tumours, the biggest cancer kill of under 40’s” (Parliament considers all petitions that get more than ...
the much-mockedYour Freedomwebsite inviting suggestions for laws to get rid of (how seriously is this being taken in government?) theNumber 10 petitions site(likewise) Contact your MP. Come up with some better ideas than that, and we’re somewhere. ...