Aan de koning raakt men niet: reconstructie van de geflopte online burgerbevraging

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  1. > Over de toegankelijkheid van de online bevraging is de voorbije maanden al veel gezegd en geschreven. Volgens specialisten was er zowat alles fout mee wat er fout mee kon zijn: de bevraging was een oerwoud van tekst waar zelfs de meest bevlogen burger al snel het noorden in kwijtraakte. De statistieken spreken op dat vlak voor zich: hoewel de grootschalige mediacampagne gekoppeld aan ‘Een land voor de toekomst’ 12,9 miljoen mensen wist te bereiken via radio en tv en nog eens 6 miljoen mensen via online advertenties, brachten maar 484.000 onder hen een bezoek aan de website. Van hen haakte 97 procent af zonder één vraag in te vullen.

    I must say, I was one of them. The website was quite hard to navigate and after I received an error after writing quite a text which made my text vanish… Yeah I just quit. So you could count me as someone who didn’t even answer one question as my answer was not saved.

    > De totale kostprijs van de burgerbevraging ‘Een land voor de toekomst’ bedraagt 2,1 miljoen euro. Voor de mediacampagne werd 1 miljoen euro gebudgetteerd.

    3,1 million to question 14.515 people (am I one of them as I created an account?) -> 213 Euro per person.

  2. I tried man, but piloting a helicopter on LSD is probably easier then trying to use their site, walls of text so long china is jealous of it and just as icing on the cake, if you make your text a bit too long the site crashes and you got to do it all over again

  3. I managed to fill in most of the surveys, but I joked to my gf that the website seemed designed by a graphics designer and not by a UX designer.

    Why is it so hard to make good navigable websites or platforms in this day and age?

  4. This looks like every other failed software development program.

    * Many stakeholders with many different (contradictory) requirements.
    * Time pressure without possibility to extend the deadline.
    * No user testing.

    Vivaldi was supposed to represent a new way of doing politics but it’s clear that 7 parties in a government is just too much.

  5. A burgerbevraging of 30 questions that people can answer with whatever they have to say about the Belgian political system but that’s actually only 29 questions because politicians lobbied one question out.

    If that doesn’t say more about Belgian politics than the whole burgerbevraging then I don’t know.

  6. >12,9 miljoen mensen wist te bereiken via radio en tv en nog eens 6 miljoen mensen via online advertenties,

    Meer mensen bereikt dan er inwoners zijn?

  7. Man, now I’m just glad I straight up forgot to take a look at that shit when it was happening. It would most likely have been wasted time anyway. What a giant waste of money, and as always I doubt there will be any accountability.

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