Public Debate on the Regulation of the "Internet Civic Framework"
Debate Público de Regulamentação do Marco Civil da Internet was an online public consultation held by the Ministry of Justice?s Secretary for Legislative Affairs (SAL/MJ), between January and April of 2015, to formulate a draft of an Executive Order to regulate Law n. 12.965/2014, known as the ?Marco Civil da Internet?. It was the first time an executive order was part of a public consultation. The consultation had two phases: the first one with general discussions under 4 axes (network neutrality, data retention, Internet privacy and others). After, SAL/MJ proposed a text based on the comments that was discussed online. Citizens, in this phase, could also send their own drafts based on the previous discussion. Debate Público de Regulamentação do Marco Civil da Internet received more than 1.000 comments under 330 proposed discussions. Automated tools aided the process of consolidating the final version. SAL/MJ used ?Hypothes.is? a software for annonation on the web and a synchronized text editor, Pad, provided by W3C Brazil. This platform received around 61.333 views from users in and outside Brazil.
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
- 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
- yes
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