Open Laws
Open Laws is a digital platform implemented by the National Chamber of Deputies, in which legislators can upload their bills and receive comments from citizens with suggestions for improvement. The site registers bills involving diverse topics, increasing transparency around the legislative process, and records more than 800 citizen contributions. The platform also has a feature that allows citizens to share bills on their social networks to give them greater visibility.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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