Online petitioning is one of a growing portfolio of Internet-based democratic innovations [16], and both governments and NGOs (e.g., Avaaz and 38 Degrees) have received accolades for their electronic petition platforms [17, 18].
(The company's online petition platform is supported by advertising).
Those about to be robbed can can protest now, beginning by signing the electronic petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/annuities/.
She threw the product away and started a petition on Change.org, an online petition platform, that has almost 200,000 signatures.
And on Friday, an electronic petition — "Satire for the House of Commons" — was filed with the British government to change the law.
The internet and mobile phones have enabled rapid mobilisation (organisers say more than 20m people have signed an electronic petition against Japan's UN bid).
By late March, some 11,500 students had signed an electronic petition against the bans, calling them "an assault on our First Amendment rights".
Security guards on the ground floor of the building did not let him proceed to the mission, said Shareeza Bhola, a spokeswoman for the online petition platform, change.org.org
Ben Rattray, founder and CEO, Change.org Ben Rattray is the founder and CEO of Change.org, the world's largest petition platform.
A petition platform – such as Change.org – can be combined with social networks to urge policymakers to address a political or societal issue.
