Lead Padlock
In 2015, three years after the Law on Access to Information came into force, the Network for Transparency and Social Participation created the Cadeado de Chumbo (lit. Lead Padlock) Award, which ranked bodies of the municipalities of the State of São Paulo in regard to the application of the Law of Access to Information. The Network for Transparency and Social Participation is composed of civil society organizations and citizens that aim to stimulate the participation of society in controlling public policies, with a special focus on the Open Government program, which tries to enhance the transparency of the State, as well as encourage society to participate and exert social control over resources and public policies. After an examination of the impact the law had on these municipalities, the network created five categories of components of the law which had been insufficiently applied. Any citizen could vote online on these categories through an online form. After the campaign, the network became part of the Civil Society Working Group for the Open Government Assessment of the Comptroller General of the Union for questions regarding the Open Government Partnership program.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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