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An award winning system designed to help you cope with the new CLG duty to respond to local petitions
Simple to implement, proven reliability
Our off-the-shelf service enables authorities to buy an affordable and proven petitions service from a trusted not-for-profit provider who has worked for Google, the BBC and No10 Downing Street.
Streamlined administration interface
Our administrative interface gives you editorial control to accept or refuse petitions according to criteria you choose. And helps alleviate similar/repeat petition submissions from groups/individuals not aware of each other.
Branded to look exactly like your council site
mySociety Petitions can be branded to match any existing design and is compatible with all current councils CMSes and web platforms.
- Zero integration
- Seamlessly branded
- Over 8 million signatures
- Stop inappropriate petitions
- Open source
- Ultra usable
- Easy to administer
Information for Councillors & Democratic Services Managers
- Communication is simple
- Allows councils to cheaply and easily reply to all the signers of a petition, reducing need for expensive outreach and marketing.
- Reach communities, measure engagement
- Allows authorities to communicate online with a higher percentage of their communities. Improves data gathering when reporting on democratic community engagement effectiveness metrics.
- Gain new insights
- Helps authorities gain insight into their communities interests and concerns.
- Total control
- Our administrative interface gives you editorial control to accept or refuse petitions according to criteria you choose. It helps alleviate similar/repeat petition submissions from groups/individuals not aware of each other.
- Less paper means less burden
- By providing an online petitions service for local issues and ultimately migrating culture from paper to online petitions will alleviate the administrative burden on authorities.
- Range of optional features
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- Associate specific councillors with a petition
- Manage offline petitions
- Obscene language filters
- Entire petition moderation process can be run by mySociety, reducing staff impacts
Information for IT / Web Managers
- Branding and integration are simple
- We can brand to match any existing design. Optionally, we can intergration with local council CRM systems
- Stay informed
- We give you detailed statistics on web traffic and statistics on new petitions, new signers etc.
- Robust infrastructure
- mySociety Petitions has true robustness, with real world testing of up to 200,000 signers per day.
- Powerful administration
- Our highly streamlined administration interface includes time-saving measures such as pro-forma responses for certain kinds of common rejection criteria, ie libel.
- Hosted externally
- Valid, accessible HTML
- Open source
- Built with PHP and Perl
- Email verification
- Graphs & statistics
Why use mySociety?
mySociety runs the largest non-partisan democracy websites in the UK, with a yearly user base measured in millions
mySociety have a strong track record of working with large, high profile organisations as varied as Google, the BBC and No10 Downing Street
We are quick, agile and deliver good value, and our petitions website for No10 is the largest ever used by a government
Our parent organisation's charitable missions include helping public bodies to understand how best to use the internet to help citizens.
The No.10 petitions site has won awards from the New Statesman and Nominet.
The new Communities and Local Government White Paper says "Some of the best examples of how information can be used to empower citizens are generated by citizens, not government. The democratic activist group MySociety has produced a number of online services."
We are fun to work with, transparent and focussed on improving services to citizens whilst understanding the culture of public authorities.
"Some of the best examples of how information can be used to empower citizens are generated by citizens, not government. The democratic activist group mySociety has produced a number of online services."- CLG White Paper: Communities in control
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