SeamOS: Digital Democracy
SeamOS is a proposal put forward in 2016 by a citizen group, which seeks to create a digital platform in which citizens can participate and influence the decisions made by their representatives; in this case, councilors, congressmen and deputies. The aim of the initiative is for these representatives to commit themselves to making the decisions that the citizens choose through the platform, even if their personal vote would have been different, thus achieving an improvement in democracy thanks to an expansion of citizen participation, which goes beyond the election every four years. This, in turn, should enable citizens to increase their confidence in both voting and through the influence of their participation.
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 a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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