Next Seminar
Symposium on Big Data and Risk Assessors in Health and Social Care
28/06/2013 Friday 28 June, 09:30, Merchiston Campus
IIDI News
Michael Smyth is a keynote speaker at the Space.Beyond.Geometry Workshop at Edinburgh University
18/06/2013
Michael Smyth to chair the 2013 SICSA MMI Doctoral Consortium at University of Stirling
11/06/2013
Piloting the E-Petitioner System with the German Parliament
01/09/2005 - 30/09/2007
The International Teledemocracy Centre (ITC), now part of the Centre for Social Informatics, worked with the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag to piloting the e-Petitioner in the German Parliament’s Public Petitions context. We took our existing e-Petitioner system, and redesigned it in collaboration with their Online Services Department, producing an application that could contend with the needs of a large European Parliament. We also demonstrated that e-Petitioner could be implemented in a language other than English.
During the evaluation period, e-Petitioner assisted the German Bundestag in discharging their responsibilities to upholding the right of their citizens to petition the Parliament. The Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament evaluated the pilot.
The Bundestag e-Petitioner was formally launched on 1st September 2005 and ran until the end of 2008, when it was replaced by a new system.
More about the German Parliament ePetitions pilot
The EuroPetition project
Summary of our ePetitions work
During the evaluation period, e-Petitioner assisted the German Bundestag in discharging their responsibilities to upholding the right of their citizens to petition the Parliament. The Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament evaluated the pilot.
The Bundestag e-Petitioner was formally launched on 1st September 2005 and ran until the end of 2008, when it was replaced by a new system.
More about the German Parliament ePetitions pilot
The EuroPetition project
Summary of our ePetitions work
Piloting the E-Petitioner System with the German Parliament is a Research Councils project funded by German Parliament.
For further information please refer to http://itc.napier.ac.uk/ITC/ProjectInfo.asp?ID=7.
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Collaborators 
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Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany
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The Scottish Parliament
Areas of Expertise
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The technologies that help us to organise and share information on the internet are changing the way we live and work. This information society or knowledge economy people affects is in all kinds of new ways – as individuals, groups and organisations.
Project Team
Professor Ann Macintosh
(not currently an institute member)
