Bogotá Citizen Assembly
The Bogotá Citizen Assembly is an experience of participation and deliberation organized by the Bogotá Mayor's Office with the support of DemoLab, the participation laboratory of the Bogotá Council. The experience is organized following the format of a "mini-public", that is, the organization sampled over 1 million homes, from which 1000 representatives were chosen among the citizens of Bogota. Citizens are selected to represent all ages, social strata and neighborhoods of the city, and the assembly is composed following the principle of gender equality. In this way, the aim is to reach a composition that reflects the demographics of the city. The elected citizens participate in a process of meetings with the members of the City Council and in a study process to learn about the issues subject to their deliberation. Within the framework of the Assembly, Forums open to all citizens are also held to inform about participatory processes, and an online platform will also be enabled so that non-selected citizens can also send their opinions and comments to the deliberative body.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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