Advisory Council of the Access to Public Information Unit
The Advisory Council of the Access to Public Information Unit was created by Law No. 18.381, known as the "Law on Access to Public Information", and its purpose is to advise the Access to Public Information Unit on regulatory matters regarding access to public information. In addition to a representative of the Judiciary and a representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Council has the participation of a person with a recognized trajectory in the promotion and defense of human rights, appointed by the Legislative Branch, who cannot be a legislator in activity, a representative of the academia and a representative of the private sector.
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
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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