Agora in Network
Ágora em Rede (lit. Agora in Network) is a collaborative digital platform created by the city of Canoas to establish an online dialogueue channel between citizens and public authorities, as well as a discussion platform for citizens themselves. The platform?s functions are: to promote discussion forums and discussions with the mayor and the secretaries of the municipality - the themes of which may be suggested by social leaders - and with important figures in the international community in the field of city management and public policies. Data from 2014 shows that 208 online discussion forums were created and over 10 thousand interactions
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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