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“I want to participate in politics,. Don’t know how,. Have no time ...”. April 24, 2007. Summary. E-Democracy What’s HazteOir.org? Origin Development Services Some successes Social campaigns. e-Democracy. Internet as a source for politics news www.hazteoir.org
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“I want to participate in politics, Don’t know how, Have no time ...”
Summary • E-Democracy • What’s HazteOir.org? • Origin • Development • Services • Some successes • Social campaigns
e-Democracy • Internet as a source for politics news www.hazteoir.org • Forum for the political debate http://foro.hazteoir.org • E-Lobbying* www.hazteoir.org – www.hayalternativas.org – • Virtual electoral campaign • E-Vote • E-Government • E-Parliament
What’s…? • An association of citizens and entities • Fighting for a better world • Based on a Christian conception of man and society • Trying to influence society, public opinion, the media and politics, and • Facilitate citizen participation • Using the Internet as basic tool
Platform of citizens and entities HO community Lobby Public life
…fighting for a better world • We facilitate political participation of citizens • Participative democracy • Politics = service • Contribute towards the Common Good and human rights
…Christian inspiration • We are a civil association • Non-religious • Mostly formed of Catholics • Also protestants and atheists • Have collaborated with Evangelicals, Orthodox, Jews and Muslims
…trying to influence… Political parties All territorial levels Government The Media Parliament Public opinion
…trying to facilitate participation • We try to make political participation • Easy • Comfortable • Agile • New technologies • Internet • E-mail (Newsletter) • SMS • PHP-Nuke • PHPbb • Message forwarding • E-Petitions • Blogs • RSS
Action Alerts • News (one issue) Web and e-mail • Action proposals to promote a specific position regarding the issue Our representatives receive dailymessages from citizens
Origin • A group of 3 motivated friends created HazteOir.org • February, 2001 • We wanted to express – make us hear – our opinion, but did not know who to talk to • We thought Internet could be the vehicle to connect the people and politicians • We “copied” some initiatives of the USA: MoveOn.org, cc.org
Development: HO people • HO team and network: 50 cyber-activists • Newslettersubscriptions: 20.000 • Visits/day: 15.000 • Ranking Alexa: 56.000 (higher than pp.es or psoe.es) • Mesages sent from HO: 3 million (approx.) Our most relevant asset
Development: platforms and entities • Single-issue platforms created by HO • Hay Alternativas • Cheque escolar • Europa, Así NO • Entities created at the HO environment • Centro de Estudios Jurídicos Tomás Moro (CJTM) • Asociación de Víctimas del Aborto (AVA) • Impuesto por la Vida • Entities created with HO participation • No es igual (ILP)
Some services • Information: Electronic Publication • Activism: Action Alerts • Politicians, journalists, institutions, companies • Newsletter • SMS • Discussion Forum and Chat • The e-Store • Opinion Polls • Forward of Letters to the Editor of 120 media
Some successes • Working groups and meetings with politicians • With representatives of the Popular Party (PP) and the Socialist Party (PSOE) to discuss our proposals regarding their electoral programs • The PSOE, for instance, incorporated some of our ideas in their Family development plan.
Some successes • Information • At a meeting of the European Popular Party, representatives knew about the position of Spanish Government thanks to www.hazteoir.org. They finally adopted this position. • Documentation • A Spanish Minister printed all documents about embryonic stem cell research.
Some successes • The Media • See press dossier • Abroad, we have been at: AP, CNN, RTF Switzerland, La Reppublica (Italia), Euro news, BBC (TV and Radio), The Times (UK)
Some successes • E-lobbying • Human Organ trafficking at Mozambike • “Rafaela Operation” • www.hayalternativas.org • El Corte Inglés • Caja Madrid
Some successes • ILP 500,000 signatures to legally oblige Parliament to vote our proposal of Law in favor of the family and the children • June 18, 2005 More than 1 million people at the streets of Madrid demonstrating for the family and against the Law to equalize marriage and same-sex couples
Some successes • June 29, 2005 19 demonstrations in 19 cities • Same issues as at June 18 • Organized in 5 days through the Internet, the e-mail and the SMS • Between 200 and 2500 people in each demonstration
5 elements of a campaign • Strong and Reasonable Ideas (think tank) • The Media • Contacts with Politicians • Partnering with NGOs • Grass-root Lobbying: the Internet
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” www.hazteoir.org