We Want To Know
We Want to Know is a web platform that enables requests for information to public bodies in an anonymous, secure and transparent manner. The site was developed by programmers with the support of Open Knowledge Brazil in order to facilitate requests for information in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Access to Public Information Nr 12527/2011. Any user can place an information request and no personal data or registration of any kind is required. Requests are evaluated by project moderators, who after checking the formal conditions, process the information request on behalf of the project and not under the name of the individual citizen. The status and result of the orders can be consulted on the project website through a code.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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