Our Mandate
The smartphone application Nosso Mandato (lit. Our Mandate) was developed by the Instituto de Inteligencia Política with the aim of bringing citizens closer to their elected representatives. Citizens can use the app to point out problems in their communities and demand necessary investments and development proposals. They can also follow the performance of the elected politician and send "pressure" to him or her to vote according to the citizens' preferences on certain bills or topics. There is also a specific channel for citizens to propose legislation projects. Politicians, on the other hand, can also register on the app and thus have a direct communication channel with their constituents, where they can make available information about their expenses and use of the public budget, of their present or future positions regarding bills, and can even schedule meetings with citizens. In 2019, 16 politicians were actively using the app along with more than 10,000 registered citizens.
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
Means
|
Ends
|
