Measuring needs and preferences
From E-Consultation Guide
Finding out how many citizens have which needs, and what their preferences are between alternative options (e.g. through surveys, opinion polls, preferenda).
- Some consultations set out to find what particular groups of people need.
- Others try to find out what preferences people have between different options.
- In either case, apart from discussion systems, we often use surveys and votes to quantify the needs or preferences.
- computers can help send out surveys, collect the results, and analyse them. They can also be used to run a quick vote in a meeting, or by subtle analysis of preferences, find underlying consensus between oponents.
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Finding out how many citizens have which needs, and what their preferences are between alternative options (e.g. through surveys, opinion polls, preferenda).
- Online petitioning
- online petition or e-Petition allows you to support a petition by adding your name and address online. Information about the subject is also provided, to put the petition in context and help you decide whether to sign.
- Bristol City Council e-petitioning
- E-polling/E-voting
- Online surveys
- an online survey is designed to replace traditional paper questionnaires.
- Survey example 1: mobile phone Internet service, example 2: various types of survey questions
Online petitioning
- cHIMICON LABS - Petition Script
- International Teledemocracy Centre - e-petitioner
- iPetitions
- Petition Module for Durpal/CiviCRM/CivicSpace
- Petition-them.com
- The Petition Site
- UK e-petition - www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page297.asp
- www.PetitionOnline.com
