CLIENT: Mihai Sturzu, MP.
DATE: 2015-2016.
TECHNICAL DATA: crowd legislating platform including Startcusturzu.ro and Fb.com/startcusturzu.ro.
OBJECTIVE: politically catalysing the youth by means of a collective legislative process. Involving the civil society in the legislative process. Gathering valuable ideas from outside the traditional experts environments involved in legislation.
DESCRIPTION: a three step process. The first included gathering issues in the Facebook community and by e-mail. The second one put the ideas into public debate, via the same mechanisms. In the end, ideas were transformed into legislative proposals and submitted to the Parliament by Mihai Sturzu.
RESULTS: a total of over 19,000 unique visitors and 22,000 page displays on Startcusturzu.ro, and more than 1,300 followers of the Facebook page between mid-2015 and the end of Mihai Sturzu’s parliamentary mandate (December 2016). Mihai Sturzu promoted and transformed into an electoral law amendment the ‘parties founded by three members’ provision. Other bills, regarding free access to the Internet or culture sponsorships, were promoted and catalyzed by the platform.
THE TEAM: Iulian Comanescu (project manager, strategist), Mihai Buță (photographer), Cristina Dumitru (web designer).
