YoVoto.com.py
YoVoto.com.py (lit. I Vote) is a digital platform that allows citizens to inform themselves about the processes of the Chamber of Deputies, and to vote on each of the bills, using their computer or mobile phone. Developed by the Citizen Awakening Movement (Movimiento Despertar Ciudadano), the platform was part of its political proposal during the Asunción municipal elections in 2013. Once elected, party MPs would be committed to voting in the House based on the decision of the majority of the participating citizens. The website was presented but never used because the Movement failed to obtain the required number of votes to join the Chamber.
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
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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