It is thanks to your opinions and participation that Qwanz.com exists. As a result, it can provide a new outlet for public debate and give you the tools to influence policy makers and the world around you.

Until now, the only way for the public to voice its opinion on what a government is doing, is by voting every few years. If individuals want to share their views on news events or reporting, they can write an editor in the hopes of being published. If they want to blog about personal interests, it mostly gets lost somewhere on the Internet.

Today, these methods are too slow and inefficient to communicate or to give us any influence on daily issues, be they quality of life, business, political, sports or society related.

Qwanz is designed to change this one way communication. It is intended to negate that feeling of being disconnected from the decision making process and powerless to affect it.

Qwanz allows users to have their voices heard by newsmakers, governments, elected officials decision makers and personalities, not just individually but much more powerfully as a group.

Qwanz uses the Web to empower people to have an independent, dedicated outlet to post their thoughts, concerns or proposed solutions regarding world events or day to day issues.

It does so by enabling users to easily set up their own opinion polls and determine the public's opinion on a particular subject of interest to them.

For the first time, it also gives users the tools to forward people's opinions to the parties involved or the decision makers, whether they are elected officials, companies, journalists, personalities or simply friends and family.

Visitors can see the world's response to polls they themselves set up, without an "editorial gate keeper" or any "political correctness" restrictions, something TV stations, newspaper or pollsters cannot do.

In addition to answering polls or seeing their results, visitors can also read the best of people's opinions or proposed solutions to world events and day to day matters; they can then post comments thereby creating a blog like thread on a particular subject.

All visitors who wish to vote, post an answer or rate an answer on the site must be registered thereby insuring only one vote per registered user and creating a demographic profile of respondents for each poll.

Why Qwanz's new form of expression is so important.

By using the possibilities offered by the Internet, Qwanz offers the tools to meet the public's new aspirations as citizen-users; It allows them to speak on topics concerning their life, to participate and do so on an on going basis, to be a force to be reckoned with, to be heard by policy makers and to influence public debate.

The Qwanz difference

Qwanz is very different from traditional polls or surveys; it in fact uses an opposite approach to those used by traditional polling organizations.

A traditional poll seeks a representative sample randomly selected among a set population; these participants are then asked their opinion on an issue. But if you are not selected within this sample, and your chances are slim for this to happen, you have no way of giving your opinion.

Further, a users' participation in a traditional polls is passive; He is selected to respond to a subject that may or may not be of any interest to him

Qwanz uses the reverse approach; it lets you select what you want to hear people's opinion on; it also lets you select what polls you want to answer or where you want to give your opinion.

As a result it is fair to say that the profile of those responding to Qwanz polls, the Internet users, will be different than those of a randomly selected sample.

Given that they are voluntary respondents, the poll results cannot be considered as traditional poll results. However, these results do have a unique characteristic in that the respondent may be considered much more motivated and engaged by the poll subject. This makes the results that much more interesting and unique.

Qwanz is a proactive tool; it provides an outlet for proactive individuals to express their opinion on a particular subject.

Qwanz.com is an independent site that does not depend on any group.

 Its management ensures the editorial independence of the site.

In addition, Qwanz.com is ideologically neutral. It does not have any political, moral or religious affiliations nor is it a spokesperson for any organization. 

Why you should participate

Qwanz not only gives you the opportunity to express yourself on day to day events or subjects that matter to you but also allows you to discover what others think about subjects that you ask about.

If you have ever wandered, discussed or guessed what people think about a particular issue, or how they might react to certain products, events or policies, now you can stop guessing and find out, by just using Qwanz.

You will know who thinks what, by age, gender, location and by a variety of other criteria. The more a user details his profile, the more information he can see.

Contrary to other means of expression such as blogs that may list similar opinions all over the internet, the subjects and opinions that matter to you will be organized and centralized, showing all the votes to a particular poll or subject matter on one site, Qwanz.com.

Strength is in the numbers; A thousand independent voices are far less powerful than a thousand voices expressing their opinion together.

Your ability to forward the results of the polls you created to the parties involved or to the decision makers gives you the power to influence the decision making process.

Qwanz gives you the tools to finally make our world a "two way communication street", not just receiving information from individuals, the media or government but now collecting opinions and returning them to the parties involved.

So register now! It's easy and fast; it also allows you to vote, rate polls, leave comments and even set up your own polls or surveys. You also get to see as detailed statistical analysis on each poll as the information you provide. In other words, the more you complete your profile, the more detailed the statistical results will be.

Click Register and start giving your opinion to the world.