Questionnez vos elus Year established: 2012 Website: questionnezvoselus.org HISTORY Pascal Derville launched the French project after having met Gregor Hackmack & Boris Heckele in Hambourg in June 2012. He gathered a team of 10 volunteers & implemented a sponsorship committee during the 2nd semester 2012. Questionnezvoselus.org was launched in May 2013 & questionnezvoscandidats.org in November 2013. OUR VISION An empowered society OUR MISSION To promote democracy through 2 independent websites to ensure transparency and accountability in politics & reinforce dialogue between citizens & their representatives KEY FIGURES – 1381 representatives on the platform (77 European deputies, 577 national deputies, 348 senators, 27 presidents of regions, 102 presidents of departments, 250 mayors) – 10000 questions & 3900 answers in September 2015 (answer rate : 39%) – See our statistics (link https://questionnezvoselus.org/statistiques) KEY POINTS OF THE PROJECT 1- User friendly website : in 2 clicks, citizens can identify their representatives or candidates & ask them a question 2- Moderation : moderation rules are key to guarantee respectful, understandable & non-redundant questions 3- Media partnerships : we have developed various widgets which are implemented by our media partners to create dialogue between citizens & representatives. Those media partnerships are key to reach all citizens & convince representatives to answer. HYBRID BUSINESS MODEL Our association is only financed by citizen donations. Two crowdfunding were organized in 2013 & 2014. Because of the platform success, decision was taken to employ one person full time in 2015 since the 100% probono model was not sufficient to assume moderation, implement our new ideas & develop new media partnerships. We are currently working on a « whitebrand » project to reinforce dialogue between French associations & their donators and between mutualist organisations & their members. CONTACTS pascal.derville@questionnezvoselus.org rodolphe.galy-dejean@questionnezvoselus.org Facebook / Twitter