Argentina

Advisory Council on Audiovisual Communication and Childhood

The Advisory Council on Audio-visual Communication and Childhood is a body created by law 26,522 with the purpose of preparing proposals aimed at increasing the quality of shows watched by children and adolescents. The Council prepares a diagnosis of recommended and non-recommended content for children and teenagers. The Council?s responsibilities include: selecting which projects can participate in the acquisition of promotion funds provided by the National Communications Agency, carrying out training activities for children, teenagers, educators and journalists, formulating a an action plan to strengthen the relationship between audio-visual media, education and culture, promoting the country's participation in world media summits for children and teenagers and monitoring compliance with current regulations on the work of children and teenagers on television shows.

Institutional design

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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
regular
Mode of selection of participants
restricted 
Type of participants
civil society private stakeholders  
Decisiveness
democratic innovation yields a binding decision  
Co-Governance
yes 

Means


  • Deliberation
  • Direct Voting
  • E-Participation
  • Citizen Representation

Ends


  • Accountability
  • Responsiveness
  • Rule of Law
  • Political Inclusion
  • Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting
Formulation and decision-making
Implementation
Evaluation

Sources

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