- 80,000 participants, 19,000 proposals… The consultation launched on the Make.org site and calling to imagine the world according to the coronavirus met with not so unexpected success as the health crisis was accompanied by a desire to bring out new values.
- The first theme addressed is that of environmental protection. Next come food and agriculture, then transportation, and finally economics and health. There are still three weeks left to vote.
- Véronique Andrieux, Director General of WWF France, already notes the link made by the participants between the current health crisis and other key themes: global warming, loss of biodiversity or the dead end of our diet.
Marie: "We must support carpooling, improve national public transport networks, cycle paths, etc." Guilhem: "We must prepare our industrial fabric for potential supply disruptions for imports (including oil)". Emmanuelle: "We must relocate to France the production of drugs, tests, masks, respirators and all that is strategic". Jean-Christophe: "We must help city dwellers to settle in the countryside" ...
We stop there. In all, 19,000 such proposals are listed on Make.org. All answer a single question, launched on April 10 by the citizen mobilization platform and several associations, including The French Red Cross and WWF France: How can we all invent the world after?
"A strong demand to operate a rupture"
“We have clearly seen, in recent weeks, that there was a strong demand from citizens to operate a rupture and accelerate an ecological and social transition after the health crisis we are experiencing, comments Véronique Andrieux, Director General of WWF France. Not to return to the model before. "
But from there to imagine such a craze to imagine the world of tomorrow? In three weeks, 80,000 people expressed themselves. "So there were 19,000 proposals, but also 750,000 votes," said Axel Dauchez, founder of Make.org. Enough to drop some records on the citizen mobilization platform. "That, already, of the number of spontaneous participations, resumes Axel Dauchez. The 80,000 people came to us without a specific digital recruitment campaign. The rate of proposals is also very high. Between five and ten times higher than other consultations. In other words, people did not only want to vote, but also and above all to be force of proposals. "
Environmental protection, first theme addressed
In detail, these 19,000 proposals are divided into five main themes. The protection of the environment is the most discussed: 22% of the measures submitted relate to this subject. The proposals relate to the need to better think about the impact of our consumption patterns and that of the most polluting companies, to give more importance to nature in the city and to natural spaces, or to raise awareness among the general public to the issue of climate change, Make.org analysis in its interim report on the consultation.
The second most discussed theme is that of agriculture and food (17% of proposals). The participants call to switch from intensive agriculture to more rational agriculture, while producing more locally, summarizes Make.org. Next come transport (9%). The proposals relate to the need to make more room for soft mobility, but also raise the growing question of limiting the use of aircraft.
Health as a watermark
Employment and wages (9%), or even health (6%), are mentioned in a more marginal way, and especially in terms of the relocation of production [of drugs or equipment, for example] or that of the revaluation of essential trades. That health is far from being the first most discussed theme may surprise in the midst of a health crisis that has undermined our health systems. Axel Dauchez and Véronique Andrieux put things into perspective. "6% of 19,000 is still a lot of proposals," slips the first.
"Above all, many measures classified in other themes ultimately address health issues, even indirectly, specifies the second. In the “employment” theme, for example, one of the proposals is to upgrade the place and remuneration of the trades essential to the functioning of society. We are talking about trades related to health or education. As well as prohibiting the trade in wild species, planting cities or even moving towards local agriculture without pesticides is also part of this idea of better preserving our health. "
The incentive more than the restrictive?
This is one of the great lessons to be drawn from this first analysis of the 19,000 proposals imagining the world according to, according to the Director General of WWF: "Many participants have made the link between the current health crisis and other themes such as global warming, loss of biodiversity or the impasse in our global food system. "
Another point to note is that the majority of the solutions proposed are of the incentive type, notes Make.org. There is talk of developing existing initiatives such as short circuits, soft mobility, teleworking, or using the lever of subsidies to accelerate transitions in the agricultural sector. A third of the solutions imagined are restrictive. They are found in particular in the theme of transport. Pierre proposes to ban the use of the car on weekends in areas with public transport, while Ana is to limit air travel to two maximum per person per year.
Three weeks to vote
This is the general picture. It is not yet completely frozen, since it is possible to make new proposals until Tuesday 6 p.m. Then, the consultation will enter its second phase - three weeks, once again -, in which it will only be possible to vote. "We consider that we have gone through all the possible and imaginable solutions to invent the next world," says Axel Dauchez. It now remains to identify the solutions on which everyone agrees, those where there are strong divisions, and finally those rejected by the majority. "
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This is the challenge of this second phase: allowing this rebalancing of solutions. Make.org ensures the impartiality of the process. "We have developed algorithms to measure the commitment and support of citizens for each of the proposals," explains Axel Dauchez. This allows us to select, over the votes, the measures that obtain the best scores on these two criteria. And the system was designed to extract results that are statistically representative of a population, in particular by preventing trolling actions and the over-representation of constituted interest groups. "
The promise then is to identify, by the end of May, the proposals that are the most consensus among the French population to imagine the future. Halfway through, Véronique Andrieux is confident about the will of the French to change their model, "to move towards a new scale of values".
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