TID+ - Enabling citizens’ initiative to eParticipation

The TID+ project aims to develop a tool that allows citizens to initiate, discuss and vote upon ideas that influence policy and legislation, and to submit them to the entity (government) that makes it available.

Once developed, the project aims to disseminate the tool and the experiences with it to interested parties in the EU. It will re-evaluate and ameliorate the present solution, develop comprehensive documentation on how it can be used optimally, and make it available free for non-commercial use to all interested actors as a tool to increase citizens’ participation. In this light, the main objectives of the project are

1. to develop and disseminate an online tool, based on open source solutions, that allows for citizens’ initiative and participation in the legislative decision-making process; this tool should be easy to use by the citizen, and should be easily adaptable by interested governments and institutions.
2. to develop and disseminate the necessary documentation and guidelines that allow a productive and effective use of the tool in the legislative decision-making process; this documentation should include past experiences, information on traps and pitfalls that could render the tool ineffective, and pointers on how to best use the outcomes of citizens’ initiatives and participation.