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i.Di Social

‘Public problem-solving’ was synonymous with policymaking. It is the work of figuring out what the government should do and how to get it done through regulation, executive order or law.”

i.Di Social is a free and open platform for civic participation, including social activists, around public administration benefitting people, representatives, and social activists in solving the most pressing problems. It provides a new way to focus, measure, and exercise policy-making and implementation by bringing different stakeholders together in a single digital platform. This is one platform for all, including the right to information activists, political entrepreneurs, elected representatives, and policy advocacy consultants, to leverage the various social platforms and advance their causes and interests.

i.Di Social helps elected representatives bridge the gap between people, activists, social entrepreneurs, and nongovernmental organizations to bypass the conventional policy-making process and experiment with agile policy-making using direct-service solutions .

There are mainly four different user groups that can participate in the product.

i.Di Social is a digital and open-source platform available to the citizens to raise Asks (more than just grievances) on any subject ranging from service delivery, to budget allocation, to taking part in policy-making and implementation.

Community champions, Political entrepreneurs, Social Activists and Elected Representatives at all levels are notified of the Asks by citizens in their constituencies. These various stakeholders can take action to enrich the asks with more information and promote the asks in the social media platforms to gather more support from the people who share similar needs.

Community champions are directly associated with elected representatives and bring Asks raised by petitioners to their notice.

Political entrepreneurs use creative ways of solving problems and act as new leaders in the field of politics who try to galvanize and consolidate support from people of distributed interests.

This will enable elected leaders(policymakers) not only to understand citizen needs in detail and design policies to address their needs but also gives an opportunity to explain to the stakeholders about policies enacted and steps taken to implement through various government agencies

The status of the Asks can be tracked by the petitioner with the Ask number in a timeline(date by date), which also includes actions taken by various stakeholders.