Open Ministry Finland

= the Avoin Ministeriö, the Open Ministry organisation, produces the citizen initiatives in Finland

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Julia Root:

FINLAND OPEN MINISTRY – Joonas Pekkanen, Founder of Avoin Ministeriö – presented the Finnish civil society organization Open Ministry. Since 2012 it is a constitutional right for citizens to propose legislation and the Open Ministry project provides assistance to citizens or civil society organizations that want to crowdsource these proposals. They have been testing out different ad-hoc tools for crowdsourcing the law proposals. 13 proposals have reached the 50,000 threshold of support to merit a process in parliament and Open Ministry has been involved in six of them. Only one initiative has been approved by congress. (http://thegovlab.org/a-growing-community-of-global-crowdlaw-practitioners/)