Between Citizens
Between Citizens is a civil society organization that seeks to promote open government by creating channels for citizen participation. Through its website, this initiative promotes debate and deliberation on specific issues to build consensus and facilitate the influence of citizens and civil society in the definition of the public agenda and policies in Venezuela. Citizens registered in the platform have access to publications and information on the issues in consensus. In this way, participants can inform themselves and prepare before entering the discussion forums. Once the debate stage is over, the information and percentage of votes on the topic discussed is published.
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 non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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