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List of petitioning websites

Features are not yet researched, like: multilingual? Legal framework? Sign with e-mail, ID, social media account? Petitions received by authority? Moderated? Support? Campaigns? Neutral? How in wikipedia? B2B, B2C? Since when?

Government operated

Petitioning websites with a mandate from the executive branche of the government. Which means they plug can be pulled by a new government.

• Manaballs in Latvia
• HM Government e-petitions, at Downing Street 10 in the UK
• We The People, at the White House in the USA
• Petitionen, at the Deutsche Bundestag in Germany
• Petitions Committee, at the Scottish Parliament in Scotland

Citizens operated

A handful or perhaps a few dozen citizens that scrape together funds with small donations from citizens and or with subsidies from a larger NGO or a (local) government. Usually the website is a small NGO itself.

• Axci, in Liessel, Brabant, the Netherlands
• 38 Degrees in London, UK
• OpenPetition by openPetition gemeinnützigen GmbH in Berlin, Germany
• Petities.nl by Stichting Petities.nl in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Petitie.be by Democratie.nu in Pellenberg, Belgium
• Petitsioon by National Property Owners Association in Estonia
• Avaaz.org, by Avaaz in New York, USA. Some notes about Avaaz.org
• Addup.org, Sierra Club in San Francisco, USA
• WeMove, by We Move in Europe
• Petitiestarter, by Greenpeace in the Netherlands
• CitizensGO, by HazteOir in Madrid, Spain
• Sum of US, 30+ staff, virtual, New York/San Francisco in USA and on GitHub
• MoveOn.org, 40+ staff, virtual, MoveOn.org Civic Action is a 501(c)(4) organization

Business operated

Financed with advertising and or selling data or other services to professional clients. Sometimes an IT-company hosts a petitioning website as a (loss making) side project, sponsoring the costs and decorated with some modest advertising.

• Petitions24.com in Oulu, Finland
• Mes Opinions.com, Villeneuve d'Ascq (Lille), France
• Change.org, Delaware, USA
• Causes, USA
• Care2, Redwood City, California, USA
• ipetitions
• PoliCat, webvariants GmbH & Co. KG, Magdeburg, Germany
• StandUnited, Intermarkets Inc. in Reston, Virginia, USA
• Petitie24, webdiensten24.nl, the Netherlands

sources

http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/08/global-web-movements-lift-democratic-decision-making-to-a-new-level/ http://www.mo.be/nieuws/online-petitie-geeft-burger-veel-macht

http://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/de-digitale-handtekening-een-sieraad-voor-de-ziel~a4078310/