Voting Power
The smartphone application "Voting Power" (port. Poder do Voto) allows for the monitoring of bills and voting processes in the National Congress. Users can download it on their cell phones and view detailed weekly reports on bills and topics under discussion in Parliament, along with reports from specialists and organizations who issue opinions on these projects. The app also allows for users to follow the voting process of bills in Congress in real time, thus informing about which representatives vote in favor or against specific issues. This is expected to promote and generate societal debate around the bills and projects. In addition, representatives in Congress can also use the application to be in contact with their constituents, and thus establish a communication channel where users can send "pressure" so that they take position in favor or against certain projects. In addition users can see the historical performance and positions of each representative.
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 no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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