Quick polls

Description:
Web-based instant survey. Typically, they allow participants to select one answer from a list of alternatives in response to a simple statement of question.

eParticipation areas:

• Campaigning
• Community building / Collaborative Environments
• Consultation
• Deliberation
• Discourse
• Electioneering
• Information Provision
• Mediation
• Polling
• Spatial planning

Stage policy cycle: Appropriate stages in policy cycle are (1) agenda setting and (5) policy evaluation. For closed user groups it can also be used in the (2) “policy formulation”-stage to get quick atmospheric pictures.


Specials:
There is usually no way to stop participants responding more than once. A user’s answers are generally not disclosed to others except as statistical totals, which are displayed on completion. Usually conducted over a relatively short timescale (several days to weeks) and often replaced by a new quick poll. The results of previous quick polls can be archived and accessed by users at a later date.


Channel:
Usually via Internet; Advanced ones via mobile communication or even Digital TV

Evaluation:
Through analysis of the answers received.

Additions:
www.scripts.com/perl-scripts/poll-and-voting-scripts www.westminster.gov.uk/councilgovernmentanddemocracy/councils/contactsconsultationand feedback/quickpoll/ http://www.biotechnology.gov.au/index.cfm?event=poll.showResults http://www.hands-online.org/cobohands/ FaqDomanda.do?idSessione=S20060801173012863rC&idMenu=1021