What problem are you solving?:

Currently in Poland there not too many ways to influence politicians who once elected forget that they should serve their voters and not waste time in political bickering. Public debate often is organised after and not before bad laws are enacted, which is too late.
People who are most interested in making difference or show they disagreement are not heard as it takes too much effort to voice their views and stands. They are not sure how they can contribute to ideas they support and who are change leaders they could entrust.
People are not aware if what they view is important can gain momentum as it is not easy to find other would be supporters with whom they could team up and achieve more. They don’t want to be inactive yet due to work, family and money constraints they are left with little choice of what they can do about issues vital to them.

Describe your idea:

Pluru.pl is a Internet platform under development (currently beta tested) that aims to empower people in their grass-root actions around variety of issues whether political, social or local initiatives. It will help to access opinion of registered users, contrast it against that of others, start online discussions, enhance voting and provoke reactions of officials thus hold them accountable. It will be a platform for politicians, social and environmental activists who want a useful and powerful tool to gather supporters, manage social campaigns, assess feasibility of projects by collecting critical or enthusiastic comments and organise real life events.

What country will this operate in?: Poland

Who are you?:

The main founder of pluru.pl project is Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Internet entrepreneur, social and occupational psychologist, Wroclaw University of Economics graduate in the area of marketing, PhD student (social competences thesis), graduate of School of Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights, NLP coach, member and co founder of Direct Democracy Association (Poland). In pluru.pl project he is supported by IT specialists, computer graphics designers, political science studies graduates and PR specialists.