Call for Contributions to the Regulation of the Internet Civil Framework
?Chamada de Contribuições ao Grupo de Trabalho de Regulamentação do Marco Civil da Internet? was an online public consultation held by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) to gather input from different stakeholders when formulating their contribution to the Executive Order regulating Law n. 12.965/2014 that establishes principles and rights for the use of the Internet in Brazil. The Law n. 12.965/2014 is known as the ?Marco Civil? da Internet and it was the first crowdfunded legislation to be formally enacted. It establishes the CGI.br and the National Telecommunication Agency should be consulted in matters of network regulation. CGI.br created in 2014 a working group to discuss the regulation of the law that would meet in person and have online participation. CGI.br held the online consultation for 2 months and it was presented at the X Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in João Pessoa and sent to the Presidency as their contribution to the regulation. The consultation received around 170 contributions from different stakeholders, such as NGOs, private sector, technical communities, academia, individual citizens and civil society organizations.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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