Diversification of channels of participation and superiority of the website

Last 8th june, the second phase of the consultation process for the reform of the Diagonal Avenue started: receiving input from citizens. After the first stage, the training sessions, as discussed in a previous post, and after the parenthesis of the European elections also reflected in this blog ,the second phase is being placed at the disposal of one million people with a small printed survey enables opinion on the subject.


It is important, it said in reference to electronic voting, the diversity of channels that are used instead in this phase. The forms take the form of leaflet, which contained nine questions that will be analyzed in detail in future entries, and are distributed to all households, in addition to being available at the offices of citizen attention, in close to the municipal buildings in Diagonal, on public transport or moving across the Diagonal Avenue and in the hands of the reporters who have been deployed there. Thus, the individual citizen who is unable to attend sessions that will be carried out through meetings of various organs of participation existing (sectorials councils, district councils, neighborhood associations tables ...) are the guarantees that have opportunity to express their opinion through the triptychs.


In line with the globalization of channels for participation in this phase of collecting proposals, has also opened the possibility to answer the questionnaire by telephone.


If the voting mechanism of the referendum that finally materialize the query was limited to e-voting, remote or attendance, the collection of ideas prior to the completion of projects to choose is by no means exclusively electronic.


At this point, still to test the telephone channel, showed a benefit of using this website in relation to the printed paper. The triptych, shown is a size A4, where one side is intended to gather the opinion of the participant and the other is making up the front, back and outline the process. The result of this condensation, the two questions that arise in open format, without a list of options to dial, can only write four lines of nine centimeters each. Meanwhile, the same two questions answered via the web, allow at least answer the same size as this post. The level of description possible of the open questions is therefore much higher in the participation in electronic paper.