Public Consultation of the Dominican Digital Agenda 2016-2020
In preparation for the drafting of the 2016-2020 Digital Agenda of the Dominican Republic, the national commission for the information society (Comisión Nacional para la Sociedad de la Información - CNSIC) called for an extensive public consultation involving various specific groups such as youth and women. Starting on August 27th, 2015, a series of events took place in order to reveal a broad reflection of public opinion as well as to find a public consensus on which priorities should be included into the Digital Agenda. The design of the digital agenda was drafted in accordance with the Dominican development plan for 2030, which is part of the Dominican Republic's efforts to comply with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Four thematic meetings were organized, one each for: the entrepreneurial sector (August 27, 2015), organizations advocating for gender equality (September 15, 2015), the public sector (September 17, 2015) and the youth sector (September 22, 2015). Those meetings were designed as spaces for the elaboration and exchange of opinions and ideas on how to implement the digital advancement of the Dominican Republic according to international standards in line with society's preferences. The CNSIC was created according to Decree 212-05 (2005) with the aim of designing and defining an innovative information strategy including society and its preferences. It is composed of various government representatives and civil society organizations.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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