W6. How important is it to be civil online on the Internet?

1. Summary
In order to see how 'important' citizens' activities are on the Internet, you first need to find out where the citizens are working on the Internet. Citizens' participation in the Internet is very diverse, ranging from the community to the academic sphere, but I think that the participation of 'politics' reveals the most important activities of citizens.

2. Interesting Point
I searched for foreign cases first to see citizen participation in politics on the Internet. First, in Finland, the online forum portal "Otakantaa" was established by the Ministry of Finance in 1999 to reflect citizens' opinions on political issues. In the case of the United Kingdom, an online project was conducted in March 2000 to discuss the issue with victims of domestic violence. In the case of Korea it has been trying to collect opinions of all citizens online under the name of "People's Petition." Anyone can raise a petition, and if the number of people who have signed the petition exceeds 200,000, the government must give the petition the answer. Currently, more than 200,000 petitions are petition for "women should go to the army", "feminism education should be carried out at school" and "Hazard and contamination of fine dust and protests against China".

3. Discussion Point
There are also people in Korea who oppose the 'People's Petition' system. They are good at the petition system itself, but criticism is that the petitions that are too common have come up indiscriminately, and that they are blurred. I personally think that such petitions must also exist as a window to accepting as much as possible everyone's opinion. What about other people's thoughts?

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