“i want to participate in politics,
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“I want to participate in politics,. Don’t know how,. Have no time ...”. April 24, 2007. Summary. E-Democracy What’s HazteOir.org? Origin Development Services Some successes Social campaigns. e-Democracy. Internet as a source for politics news www.hazteoir.org - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
“I want to participate in politics,
Don’t know how,
Have no time ...”
April 24, 2007
Summary
• E-Democracy• What’s HazteOir.org?• Origin• Development• Services• Some successes• Social campaigns
e-Democracy
• Internet as a source for politics news www.hazteoir.org
• Forum for the political debate http://foro.hazteoir.org
• E-Lobbying* www.hazteoir.org – www.hayalternativas.org –
• Virtual electoral campaign• E-Vote• E-Government• E-Parliament
Government-citizen relations
What’s…?
– An association of citizens and entities
– Fighting for a better world
– Based on a Christian conception of man and society
– Trying to influence society, public opinion, the media and politics, and
– Facilitate citizen participation
– Using the Internet as basic tool
Platform of citizens and entities
HO community Public lifeLobby
We facilitate political participation of citizens
Participative democracyPolitics = serviceContribute towards the Common Good and human rights
…fighting for a better world
…Christian inspiration
• We are a civil association
• Non-religious
• Mostly formed of Catholics– Also protestants and atheists– Have collaborated with Evangelicals,
Orthodox, Jews and Muslims
Public opinion
Government
Parliament
The Media
All territorial levels
Political parties
…trying to influence…
…trying to facilitate participation
• We try to make political participation– Easy– Comfortable– Agile
• New technologies– Internet– E-mail (Newsletter)– SMS– PHP-Nuke– PHPbb– Message forwarding– E-Petitions– Blogs– RSS
News (one issue) Web and e-mail
Action proposals to promote a specific position regarding the issue
Action Alerts
Our representatives receive daily messages from citizens
• A group of 3 motivated friends created HazteOir.org
• February, 2001
• We wanted to express – make us hear – our opinion, but did not know who to talk to
• We thought Internet could be the vehicle to connect the people and politicians
• We “copied” some initiatives of the USA: MoveOn.org, cc.org
Origin
Development: HO people
Our most relevant asset
• HO team and network: 50 cyber-activists• Newsletter subscriptions: 20.000• Visits/day: 15.000• Ranking Alexa: 56.000 (higher than pp.es
or psoe.es)• Mesages sent from HO: 3 million (approx.)
Development: platforms and entities
• Single-issue platforms created by HO– Hay Alternativas– Cheque escolar– Europa, Así NO
• Entities created at the HO environment– Centro de Estudios Jurídicos Tomás Moro
(CJTM)– Asociación de Víctimas del Aborto (AVA)– Impuesto por la Vida
• Entities created with HO participation– No es igual (ILP)
• Information: Electronic Publication • Activism: Action Alerts
– Politicians, journalists, institutions, companies
• Newsletter• SMS• Discussion Forum and Chat• The e-Store• Opinion Polls• Forward of Letters to the Editor of 120 media
Some services
Working groups and meetings with politicians
With representatives of the Popular Party (PP) and the Socialist Party (PSOE) to discuss our proposals regarding their electoral programsThe PSOE, for instance, incorporated some of our ideas in their Family development plan.
Some successes
InformationAt a meeting of the European Popular Party, representatives knew about the position of Spanish Government thanks to www.hazteoir.org. They finally adopted this position.
DocumentationA Spanish Minister printed all documents about embryonic stem cell research.
Some successes
The Media
See press dossier
Abroad, we have been at: AP, CNN, RTF Switzerland, La Reppublica (Italia), Euro news, BBC (TV and Radio), The Times (UK)
Some successes
E-lobbying
Human Organ trafficking at Mozambike “Rafaela Operation”www.hayalternativas.orgEl Corte InglésCaja Madrid
Some successes
ILP 500,000 signatures to legally oblige Parliament to vote our proposal of Law in favor of the family and the children
June 18, 2005 More than 1 million people at the streets of Madrid demonstrating for the family and against the Law to equalize marriage and same-sex couples
Some successes
June 29, 2005 19 demonstrations in 19 cities
Same issues as at June 18
Organized in 5 days through the Internet, the e-mail and the SMS
Between 200 and 2500 people in each demonstration
Some successes
5 elements of a campaign
Strong and Reasonable Ideas (think tank)
The Media
Contacts with Politicians
Partnering with NGOs
Grass-root Lobbying: the Internet
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that
ever has.”
www.hazteoir.org