White House to Offer API Access to Petitions Site
The White House's electronic petitions site, WeThePeople, will move to an API-based service, allowing users to sign petitions without visiting the website, said Peter Welch, a deputy director in the Office of Digital Strategy.
The White House’s electronic petitions site, WeThePeople, will move to an API-based service, allowing users to sign petitions without visiting the website, said Peter Welch, a deputy director in the Office of Digital Strategy.
“We’re taking a new approach to how the application works, one that starts with the assumption that it should be as open, transparent, and flexible as possible,” Welch said in a blog post.
The site, which allows citizens to petition the president directly, has met with such high user engagement that the White House has twice raised the number of signatures required to earn a response to a petition from the president.
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