National Commission for Open Government
The National Open Government Commission Panama was created in 2018 by the National Authority for Transparency and aims to be mechanism for permanent dialogue between government representatives and civil society, which shall debate and make binding decisions in the stages of preparation, implementation and evaluation of the country?s National Action Plans for Open Government. The Commission is made up of 6 civil society organizations (3 main and 3 substitutes), 3 government agencies and two observer institutions (the Citizen Alliance for Justice and the UNDP). The meetings are held on a regular basis and each main participant organization sends a representative (6 in total). At these meetings, decisions are made by consensus, and when consensus cannot be reached, an opinion from the observer organizations is requested. In addition to monitoring compliance with government commitments regarding open government, the commission organizes discussions with independent politicians and candidates and requests them to commit to its open government projects.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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