vation-ca / regs-consult-wet

Prototyping and open-source development for regulatory consultations using the Web Experience Toolkit (WET)

eRegs Pilot2 project

Planning and design preparations for second pilot of online regulatory consultations.

Pilot1 MVP: 1st online Gazette 1 consultation with inline commenting on the regulatory proposal and an admin/analysis toolkit for the regulatory team to prepare, receive, analyze and review comment submissions

• Code base & learning for Pilot1 is in this repository
• History, posts, architecture and demo links for Pilot1

Site MVP: Policy and design ideas for public display of all comments from Open Regulations Platform

• Prototype of eRegulations site - home page
• Policy prototype with privacy, email confirmation, rules etc.
• Prototype of view public comments for an example consultation

Design decisions with policy implications

• Commenters can hide their personal name from public view
  • Background on decision to hide personal names
• Commenters must verify their email address before their submission is accepted
  • Background on decision to verify email addresses
• Display comments publicly at the end of consultation period, not during the consultation
  • Background on decision to display comments after the consultation period
• Format of display of submissions - by submission and by text section, or just by submission
• No exceptions to public comment display, all submissions - whether submitted online, by email or by snail mail - are displayed online.
• No parallel process - all submissions are channelled online - no email submissions will be accepted for the pilot consultation.

Iteration plan (initial draft - not used)

Download Iteration plan 16March2018 (PPT)

Sketch of Open Regulations public views

Compare Canada - US - Mexico regulatory platforms