100,000 ROI initiatives: what happened to them? The Russian Public Initiative system needs to be improved.

In April 2013, the Public Initiative portal appeared in Runet. Its creation was sanctioned directly by the President of the Russian Federation and secured by a relevant decree. The purpose of this portal is to provide any citizen of the country with the opportunity to directly contact the authorities, sign petitions and participate in the promotion of public projects by voting. The project is located at roi.ru. Voting and any other actions on it are available only to users of the State Services portal - there is no separate registration on the site. Further detailed analysis how to use this service.

Portal features

On the site of public initiatives, each registered user can submit his petition regarding public life country, region, city, etc. According to the presidential decree regulating the operation of the portal, a petition that has received more than 100,000 votes "for" goes to consideration working group organized by the government specifically for this purpose.

Important! Since 2016, information about initiatives that have received more than 35,000 support votes has also been transmitted to the State Duma.

After consideration, the commission decides whether to develop the proposed idea. It can be accepted and sent for work or rejected with an explanation of the reasons on the portal.

What initiatives can be promoted?

Requirements for proposals that are allowed to be published on the portal of public initiatives are enshrined in Presidential Decree No. 183, adopted on March 4, 2013. The site has moderators who check all submitted proposals for compliance with these criteria. After approval, the petition is published in the public domain.

You can make proposals regarding both changes in federal legislation and improving the quality of life in a particular locality. For example, it was thanks to this service that one of the pedestrian crossings in Izhevsk was organized and a front fountain was built in Kursk.

By the way, the ability to save a cell phone number when changing a telecom operator is also one of the public initiatives implemented with the help of the roi.ru portal.

How many votes do you need to approve?

Once a proposal is published on the swarm website, voting must continue for a year. The number of votes required to submit a proposal to the government commission, depends on the level of initiative:

at least 100,000 - for proposals of national significance;
100,000 - for regional initiatives (applies to regions with a population of more than 2,000,000 people);
5% of the number of inhabitants of the region - for smaller regions;
5% of the population of the municipality - for proposals of municipal importance.

The term for expert consideration of a proposal that has overcome the required threshold is 2 months. The decision made on the basis of the work on the initiative must be published on the portal.

How to work with the service?

Before you can start using the Initiatives site, you must create your own account on it. The site rules provide for two types of accounts:

standard;
confirmed.

The first gives the user access to a limited set of features, which does not include the creation of petitions and voting. The second opens the full range of portal possibilities. Such a division was adopted in order to remove the possibility of cheating votes under the proposals made.

What do you need to register?

Logging into the roi portal is possible only with the login and password entered on the State Services service. Moreover, just creating an account via the Internet is not enough, it must be confirmed. Otherwise, the user will not be able to access one of the main roi.ru services - voting. Public services offer several ways to verify your account:

through a visit to the MFC;
by entering a personal code from a letter sent by the portal;
using an electronic signature.

Important! The letter will be sent to the user in paper form via Russian Post. The average delivery time is about two weeks.

Possible login issues

Having issued, the user can, using the credentials he has, access the site of public initiatives. The login button is located in the upper right corner of the site page.

is it listed in account Gosuslug user's contact email;
Is the email address verified?

If this contact is not in the profile or it has not been verified, it will be impossible to enter the community initiatives service. The system will simply give a login error. In this case, you will have to return to the State Services and complete the profile.

Important: specifying an email is necessary, since it is to it that the user will receive all information about the initiatives put forward by him and other actions taken on the site.

How to vote?

On the home page The swarm website has published a list of the most popular initiatives that are being voted on. If a portal visitor needs a specific petition, he can find it by number using the search bar at the top of the page. For those who are interested in a particular topic or proposals made in a particular region, the page also has the appropriate filters.

To vote, you just need to choose certain offer from the list by clicking on its name. The monitor will show detailed description initiatives, and at the bottom - a form for voting. By clicking the appropriate button (for or against), the user will see a message that his vote has been taken into account. The same message in a minute will come to his e-mail.

How to track petitions?

In order to learn in time about the appearance of new petitions, as well as about the fate of the initiatives for which the vote was cast, portal users can:

visit the site office daily;
subscribe to email notifications;
join one of the groups of the portal in social networks.

This service will certainly be useful for people with an active civic position.

Initiator: Alexei Navalny, Anti-Corruption Foundation

Fate: On February 25, 2015, the federal working group recognized the development of the relevant regulatory legal act as inappropriate. According to its participants, the proposed changes are contrary to the Russian Constitution. At the same time, the expert opinion states that the Russian Federation agreed on Article 20 of the Convention in full back in 2006. This assertion was previously disputed by and. The working group only recommended an analysis of the current anti-corruption legislation. It is worth noting that the final decision on the Open Government initiative could only be made the second time - at the first meeting, it was not possible to collect a quorum.

In the spring of 2015, supporters of the initiative to attempt to submit to the State Duma a proposal to ratify Article 20 through regional parliaments.

To oblige the Russian Football Union and the Ministry of Sports of Russia to conduct a rating Internet voting on candidates for the position of head coach of the Russian national football team, as well as on candidates for the Russian national football team before world competitions

Initiator: anonymously

Fate: At a meeting of the federal working group on June 10, 2015, the idea of such elections was supported. Despite the negative assessment of the initiative by representatives of the RFU, the Ministry of Sports and All-Russian organization fans, the expert group supported the idea and recommended to hold rating voting. “It is proposed to make the result of the Internet voting optional, but recommendatory, so that sports officials are aware of their responsibility for making a decision and explain their position in the event of a choice different from the result of the Internet voting,” the decision published on the page of the initiative states. , the conclusion of the group is advisory in nature and the RFU will be able to independently accept or not accept the proposals of the working group.

Make changes to Labor Code(Labor Code of the Russian Federation), providing for mandatory indexation wages employees at least once a year at a level not lower than the actual rate of inflation

Initiator: Russian Trade Union of Railway Workers and Transport Builders

Fate: On June 10, the Working Group found it inappropriate to introduce into the Labor Code Russian Federation changes proposed by the public initiative

There is a similar petition on the portal "People's Initiative" of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. To date, she has garnered 1,492 votes out of the 20,000 required.

Great news - the official website of public initiatives has been launched. Let me remind you that this is a real tool that can bring a public initiative to the masses and turn it into a bill. I remember how, at the beginning of last year, together with other active participants in the network space, I gathered under the initiative “on foreign agents”, which was later brought to the attention of the president and became the basis for a bill that sounds very relevant today.

Today, just, Putin gave German media interview about it. ITAR-TASS reports:

“654 non-governmental organizations operate in the Russian Federation, which, as it turned out now, receive money from abroad. 654 organizations are a whole network throughout the Russian Federation, including all its regions,” the head of state said.

He admitted that until recently he did not know how much money comes from abroad for the activities of such organizations. “In just four months after we adopted the relevant law, the accounts of these organizations received from abroad, can you imagine how much money was received? You can't imagine, and I didn't know: 28 billion 300 million rubles That's almost a billion dollars. 855 million rubles - through diplomatic missions. These are organizations that are engaged in domestic political activities,” Putin stated.

Can you imagine? 28 billion 300 million rubles for anti-Russian activities - the promotion of juvenile justice, the financing of biased liberal media, the financing of odious politicians.

To prevent this from happening, a real tool has appeared through which society can influence the situation in the country.

The site has a simple, memorable address:

I had to take care of this issue. In fact, everything is quite simple - either come to the local branch with a passport, or order a letter with a code by mail to the registration address. I chose the second option.

The reason for officially verifying the data is quite clear - today there are entire companies specializing in working with "bots". And they are engaged not only in pumping Twitters, but also in voting. Therefore, in order to avoid this infection, a completely logical data validation is introduced - only real citizens can put forward an initiative and / or vote for it.

The principle of operation is clearly shown in the corresponding subsection of the site:

The rules for considering initiatives have been announced. Based on the experience of collecting signatures, they are quite real.

Correctly divided into levels - municipal, regional and federal - with a different number of required signatures.

It remains only to check this site in operation. In general, the idea of creating a single center for public initiatives is assessed positively, especially due to the fact that registration on the State Services website is required to confirm the identity. No falsifications, bots and other attributes typical for mass projects.

Do you want transparency? Receive and sign. Under the initiative you and your loved ones need, of course.

The mechanisms launched in 2013 by decree of the President of the Russian public initiative» (ROI) need to be improved, especially at the regional and municipal levels. In particular, we are talking about the possible simplification of the registration of participants in discussions. And the authorities should be obliged to take into account the petitions and proposals of citizens in their work or openly argue why they cannot be taken into account. Such conclusions were reached by the participants of the meeting of the Council for Cooperation with Institutions civil society under the chairman of the Federation Council. When modernizing this system, it is necessary to take into account the practices of the regions in creating services for feedback from citizens, Mikhail Abyzov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Open Government, believes. To protect the rights of citizens during public discussions, Open Government and the Public Chamber intend to initiate a number of changes to the legislation.

Every citizen of Russia over 18 years of age registered on the public services portal can put forward their own initiative or support any other on the ROI portal. In order for a federal-level initiative to be considered, it must gain 100,000 “yes” votes within a year. Federal-level initiatives that have received sufficient support from citizens are submitted for consideration by a federal-level expert working group headed by Russian Minister Mikhail Abyzov. The threshold for considering initiatives at the regional level is also 100 thousand for regions with a population of over 2 million, and 5% of the region's population for the rest. For municipalities - 5% of their population.

Since the launch of the portal, 13 petitions at the federal level have received the required number of votes, all of them have been considered by an expert working group, and the conclusions based on the results of the public discussion have been sent to the authorities for consideration in their current work. As for the initiatives of the regional and municipal level, none of them was considered by the expert working groups of the corresponding level.

Perhaps it is worth thinking about improving the system for classifying public initiatives, to find out how the conclusions of the expert working group are binding and final, how the mechanism of public initiative is included or not included in the legislative process. It is worth thinking about the formation of a unified electronic system feedback from authorities with civil society institutions and increase citizens' confidence in the effectiveness of the e-voting system,” Nikolay Fedorov said.

On the federal level the system as a whole works, but citizens do not yet have the opportunity to trace how their proposals are taken into account in the work of government bodies, Mikhail Abyzov agrees.

According to the main proposals that the federal group developed and sent to the executive authorities, we monitor the quality of their implementation. However, there are some issues. Not all proposals are taken into account in a timely manner and state decisions are developed on their basis. I agree that we need to think about a mechanism, perhaps, of mandatory consideration of those proposals that are being developed,” the minister said.

To implement the mechanism at the regional level, according to him, all information opportunities have also been created, but so far, at the level of subjects of the Russian Federation and municipalities, truly ROI and petition institutions have not worked. The reason, according to the minister, is that the system at this level provides for the mandatory identification of citizens through the electronic digital signature (EDS) system, which is difficult and costly for an ordinary citizen. This system needs to be modernized and made closer to consumer needs. common man, taking into account the experience of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in creating services for receiving feedback from citizens, Mikhail Abyzov believes. As an example, he cited the Moscow service " Active Citizen” and the Moscow region “Dobrodel”, in which the opinion of citizens is taken into account according to a different, simpler model.

These systems are more comfortable for ordinary people. Moscow and the Moscow region have established a good state infrastructure that properly supports the quality implementation of the initiatives, proposals and comments that are being collected. By itself, popular voting and the collection of proposals will not work if people do not see how the government takes into account and for what reason rejects supported initiatives. Taking into account these practices, it is necessary to see what changes can be made to the IC system, it is possible to change the registration parameters for the main participants for regional and municipal modules. It is necessary for the leaders of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to be more actively involved in this work so that the most significant issues are not embarrassed to put up for public discussion and receive the very feedback for which the Open Government system was created,” the minister believes.

Regional officials need to be trained in the use of such services, Mikhail Abyzov emphasized. He recalled that earlier it was decided to create on the basis of the university government controlled Government of Moscow courses for training representatives of the regions to work with such systems. At the same time, regions can be offered a ready-made "cloud" solution, which will allow them to avoid additional costs for the implementation and operation of electronic services.

The main costs here will be associated with the organization public service and the creation of a different culture of public administration. Today we are sometimes focused on answering automatically, "for show", but here it will be necessary to react and clearly indicate how the proposal is implemented. To date, only a few regions are able to do this qualitatively: Moscow, the Moscow region, Tatarstan and some other subjects of the Russian Federation,” Mikhail Abyzov said.

But for effective work with citizens, it is necessary to move in all directions: not only use new technologies, but also “go out” to citizens personally, the minister stressed. Only in this way, in his opinion, it is possible to significantly change the quality of decisions made.

In order to ensure the protection of the rights of citizens during various public discussions and the consideration of their opinions by the authorities, it is planned to amend the legislation.

Together with the Public Chamber, we propose to build more effective system take the initiative to introduce additions and clarifications to the laws on public control and on the Public Chamber in order to provide for the obligatory nature of certain norms and procedures that would better protect the interests of citizens during public discussions,” Mikhail Abyzov said.

Secretary of the Public Chamber Alexander Brechalov, in turn, also noted the importance of working at the regional level, especially with citizens' appeals. He recalled that the federal legislation has norms that regulate the work of officials at the request of citizens. Meanwhile, as the practice of direct lines with the President of the Russian Federation shows, complaints are brought to the level of the head of state when people have turned to all officials at the regional level, but have not waited for a solution to the problem.

AT Public Chamber more than 25 thousand applications are received every year. Almost 70–80% are proposals and problems that can definitely be solved at the regional level. My colleagues and I put the quality of work with citizens' appeals as one of the first points of our key performance indicators. I think that together we need to intensify work in this direction,” said the Secretary of the Public Chamber.

The main priorities of the "Open Government" system were defined in the May decrees of the President. Per last years, according to Mikhail Abyzov, together with State Duma, the Federation Council and the regions managed to create the foundation of an infrastructure that allows taking into account the opinion of citizens on a wide range of government decisions and issues under discussion.

In April 2013, at the direction of the President of the Russian Federation, a special Internet project was created, the main task of which was to collect and report public opinion to the authorities. The Russian Public Initiative is a project that allows any citizen to create appeals to the authorities and participate in the signing of various petitions.

The official website of the Russian public initiative is located at roi.ru. To conduct any activity on it, you must register. All users of the State Services portal can use all the necessary functionality of the ROI website. When you enter it under your account, the user will be able to get acquainted with all the discussed initiatives, create his own appeal, cast his vote for a particular petition.

Registration procedure

There is no special procedure for registering on the website of the Russian Public Initiative (ROI) for users of the State Services website. You can go there with your login and password assigned during registration on the State Service portal. The authentication or user identification system used for both sites makes it easy to do this. Therefore, there is nothing complicated in this procedure.

In order to use all the functionality of the ROI website, you need to go to roi.ru and enter your cell phone number in the format +7 900) 00-00-000 in a special input form. Please note that the full functionality of both portals is only available to users with a verified account. Raise your status personal account up to this level is very easy. It is enough to apply personally to any of the MFCs with a passport or other identity document.

The standard account type does not even provide an opportunity to vote for a particular petition. Such security measures have been taken recently. They were introduced in order to exclude the possibility of artificially increasing the significance of a particular initiated document.

Voting on the website of the Russian public initiative

In order to vote on the site of the Russian public initiative, you need to go to this portal. In the upper right corner of the page is special shape to enter. Enter your password and login into it, Log in to the portal.

Next, you need to find in the catalog the initiative for which you would like to vote. There is also an option to subscribe. In this variant, the address Email you will receive notifications about changes in the status of monitored petitions and initiatives.