#Pyrawebs
"Pyrawebs" was a campaign against an internet data retention bill. The name alludes to the figure of the "pyrague"; the name of the informant for the police during the Stroessner dictatorship. The campaign involved activism on several levels: an expert debate and analyses of the legislative project; the translation of the bill into a user-friendly audiovisual language, highlighting its main shortcomings and critiques; the submission of concrete claims before the legislative bodies through petitions signed by the general public and specialized NGOs from around the world; as well as the direct addressing of Senators with tweets from the campaign?s official website. The campaign raised awareness and public debate on issues of privacy and freedom on the internet. It trained several people in the specifics of the topic for the dissemination of the messages and simultaneously carried out lobbying activities. In the end, the internet data retention bill was rejected and the "Pyrawebs" campaign received several awards for its reach, innovation and success.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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