Digital Participatory Budgeting
Digital Participatory Budgeting is an online platform for discussions with society on local budget allocation issues and priorities. Such platforms exist both as an integral part of face-to-face Participatory Budgeting as well as exclusively digital experiences. Digital Participatory Budgeting is more recent and, until 2016, was less frequent in Brazil when compared to face-to-face participatory budgeting. The first experiments took place in 2001 in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, and in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais. Data from 2014 shows that 37 such platforms were operating in Brazil at the time.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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