Hacker Laboratory of the Chamber of Deputies
The Hacker Laboratory of the Chamber of Deputies is a laboratory for innovation within the Chamber of Deputies open to citizen participation. It was created in 2013 as a permanent hackerspace after the completion of the first hackathon for parliamentary transparency projects. It is the first case in which a laboratory for innovation is institutionalized in the Legislative Branch. Its objective is to develop E-Democracy platforms in the framework of other activities that increase citizen participation in the legislative process, in addition to increasing transparency. All the tools developed are open source and the lab is also open for any compromise.
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 civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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