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We the People Conference Call

by Tim on January 30, 2012

In case you’ve been following We the People (see our coverage), this upcoming conference call might be for you. From the IAP2 USA blog: We the People Follow-Up: February 1, 2012 Last October, we asked you to help us improve We the People, the new White House e-petition site. Collaborating with our partners, the National Coalition for [...]

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It’s been a little over two months since we last took a look at We The People adoption metrics. Lucas Cioffi, NCDD Board member, on Thursday attended a meeting on the Open Government Partnership (OGP), specifically the U.S. Action Plan. He was able to score the following metrics: White House Meeting on OpenGov Action Plan Of [...]

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Update 09/29 at 2.18pm: According to this tweet from Macon Phillips, there have been “500k signatures from 300k ppl on 6500 petitions.” In the post below, I forgot to mention that petitions must gain 150 signatures before they can be included in the public listing. I’ve updated the post accordingly. The White House e-petition site [...]

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We The People: First Look

by Tim on September 22, 2011

Moments ago, the White House unveiled their new online petition service, We The People: We The People is Live! Welcome to We the People on WhiteHouse.gov. This tool provides you with a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country. If a petition gets enough [...]

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More Details on We The People

by Tim on September 15, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, I shared a few questions related to the public participation aspects of the new We The People e-petition site. Earlier today, the White House went into some detail answering all six of them: What the People Want to Know About We the People In the same post, White House Director of New Media Macon Phillips [...]

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