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4.7. Citizens' Participation
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One of the aims of the Bungeni portal, beside improving access to parliamentary works, is to provide opportunities for Citizens' participation in the legislative and oversight process. The Bungeni portal will provide the following functionalities that may be used in whatever section/part of the site each parliament may choose:
Annotation: parliaments will have the ability to allow registered users to annotate draft documents (e.g. bills, committee reports, etc.). This functionality will allow parliaments to collect the advice and opinion of citizens in a very detailed and articulated fashion.
Blog-like-discussion: Committees and/or MPs can set up a blog where they can present issues that are debated, or issues of concern to a particular MP, and allow citizens to comment and present their contribution on the web. The debate records of the MP could also be published as dated blog entries.
Feedback: parliaments will have the possibility to allow citizens to easily send feedback from any section/page of the website by simply clicking the "feedback" icon and filling in a form with the notes of the user.
Poll and Surveys: parliaments will have the possibility to have an online poll on any page of the site to solicit the opinion of the citizens and/or request them to fill in a survey if the information requested are more complex than a simple "yes/no" poll.
Petitions: parliaments will have the possibility to allow registered members of the public to submit petitions and allow other members of the public to sign the petitions. It be possible to track the status of petitions on the portal. Petitions submitted will not be accessible before the designated staff of the parliament is satisfied that it complies with the specific regulations and requirements that each parliament will set.