Citizen policy network
Involving public in the form of social network for policy development and understanding.
About You
About You
First Name
sanjeev
Last Name
suman
Twitter URL
twitter.com/sumansanjeev
Facebook URL
facebook.com/sanjeevsuman
About Your Organization
Organization Name
Organization Website
Organization Country
India, XX
Country where this project is creating social impact
India, XX
Is your organization a
Not registered
How long has your organization been operating?
Less than a year
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Innovation
Entry Form title
Citizen policy network
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Idea (you're poised to launch)
How long have you been in operation?
Still in idea phase, but looking to launch soon
THE NEED: Describe the need for your solution and the size/dynamic of the community (ies) you will engage
India is worlds largest democracy.The most pressing issue for this democracy is engaging people to the process of policy formulation. The discontent was very visible with the currnt agitation regarding a bill.The problem with the agitation was that most of the people were not even aware of the provisions of the bill.There is an agency working towards the same with the right intent.The problem with the agency is that even with the intent it is limited to a niche category of people.The people involved have been legislatures,lawyers and few passionate people.
THE SOLUTION: Please explain what your solution offers and how it is innovative. How will you put your solution into the hands of users or beneficiaries? Be specific!
The solution I propose:
-create a platform for acts,pending bills and consultation papers
-make all of them simpl,easy to understand and how they are going to impact you as the person to be served
-create specefic sectors
-create region specefic
-create forums to discuss
-making people understand how the laws will be formulated and apply to communities
- create suggestion box for pending bills and consultation papers
-show the public profile of representatives ie legislatures in respect of their bill performances
-show the parliament profile for the same
-create mobile database to track ur specific bill.
- create easy solutions for business,property,family,will and other day to day legal issues to attract crowd.
- back it up with offline forums in schools,colleges,social meetings in cities and village panchayats
- create sector specific and region specific groups
-Discussions where participants help each other understand the issues
The main objective is demystifying the bill,classifying its content and impact population and again classifying the people incharge of passing the bill,their opinion,impact people opinion and expert opinion.The whole platform shall work in the form of an active social network.
THE MODEL: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference through use of information technology and media
example of the new land acquisition bill:
-The bill is presented on our platform in the most simple manner specifying the points the bill contain.
- We create the online discussions for the bill.
- We let people know and discuss how the bill will impact them
- The people discuss it and form a advocacy groups through our platform
- Land acquisition is basically a struggle between ever expanding people in or moving to cities without lands with rural people without land.
- We take the discussion to the cities and villages through our offline discussions and tracking their views.
- schools and colleges play the role of a learners and volunteers and normal participants as public.
-Reports are created with suggestions and objections forwarded to the government.
-government gets the views of all the people whom the bill shall impact directly or indirectly.
-People could track what each of their representative is doing or saying for the bill and how their suggestions were incorporated.
- keep the resource section for articles and some expert opinions to get better opinion.
Thus we created a lobby of citizens who could influence the passing of bills and object to provisions after the knowledge of the bill and engaged the youth for the same.
THE MARKETPLACE: Who are your peers and competitors? What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
PRS is an established organisation. It works more as a government assistant and with less public participation. They have huge backing. No other strong organisation.
Social Impact
This Entry is about (Issues)
FOUNDING STORY: We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.
Anna Hazare agitation where we realised how people suddenly woke up for a single legislation when they got a plattform to express themselves.The other thing we saw was that many people didnt know the provisions of the Bill and how it was to impact them.
Specify both the depth and scale of your solution’s social impact to date
What is your projected impact within the next 1-5 years? Is your idea replicable? If so, how?
-we wish to create a public advocacy group or lobby group to object and provide solutions to the public policy.
- We wish to create 400-500 offline centres and 2-3 million users online in 3-4years
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and mark growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Six-Month Tasks
Task 1
create a easy to use interactive platform
Task 2
generate a buzz for the initiative
Task 3
tying up with colleges,village panchayats and other social groups
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
12-Month Tasks
Task 1
partnership with ngos at local level
Task 2
partnership with mainstream media
Task 3
tying up with schools as learning tools
How many people have been impacted by your project?
Please select
How many people could be impacted by your project in the next three years?
More than 10,000
Sustainability
Explain how your company, program, service or product is structured
Non-profit
What barriers have hindered the success of your project to date? How do you plan to overcome these and other challenges as you grow your solution?
The most important challenges that could come in the way of growing up are:
-people not finding it comfortable and useful
-staying neutral
-not having specefic networks
-financial abilities
we plan to start with a very strong and people specific interface with an ability to engage the user both online and offline.We intend to be specific and focus practical issues.The project shall always take every view and keep the lobby creation factor away with the help of a site moderator.We plan to tie up with specefic agencies along with government to keep the network all inclusive and proactive.The self sustaining model shall be dealt with users and high value resources being charged for.
How do you see the information-technology and media sectors shifting over the next decade? How will your solution adapt to and/or drive that changing environment?
The it along with media is getting more localised,personal and specific.This is in sync with our objectives as we intend to be growing on the same line. Penetration is another issue big thing happening with media and it which shall help our organisation.The problem could be the high number of options available where sustainablity shall depend upon how much relevant your services are the quality of engagement that is being provided.
Failure is not always an option. If your solution fails to gain traction in the next two years, what other applications of the idea could you explore?
- Create a youth policy debate series at regional level with our tie ups in college focusing on sustainable and devlopment polices.
Expand on your selections, explaining how you will sustain funding
We would need initial funding of around $15000 and hope to break even in 2years.Other funding shall be welcome and help us grow and we dont seek any further funding from any organisation instead support in other forms.
Tell us about your partnerships
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section?
lawyers,law students,college students,journalist,project writers,social workers
Changemakers is a collaborative and supportive space. Please specify any community resources you would need to grow and sustain your initiative. Select all that apply
Investment, Human resources or talent, Marketing or media, Research or information, Collaboration or networking, Pro-bono help (legal, financial, etc.), Mentorship.
Specify any resources you might offer to support other initiatives. Select all that apply
Human resources or talent, Marketing or media, Research or information, Collaboration or networking, Pro-bono help (legal, financial, etc.), Innovation or ideas, Mentorship.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren’t specified within the list
Summary
Define your company, program, service or product in 1-2 short sentences
To Policy simple to understand .Create public platform to involve public to understand,discuss and track laws which impact them.
Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences
Involving public in the form of social network for policy development and understanding.
 | 36 weeks agosanjeev suman updated this Competition Entry. |
| 36 weeks agosanjeev suman updated this Competition Entry. |
| 36 weeks agosanjeev suman submitted this idea. |
