Eye on Budget Ammends
De Olho nas Emendas (lit. Eyes on Budget Ammends) is a project iniciated by Adote un Vereador to monitor how the district congressmen of Brasília ammend budget expenses. In Brazil, the Emendas (ammends) are an instrument provided by the constitution by which congressmen can determine the destination of a part of the budget. It is the opportunity they have to directly influence public spending, conceived as a mechanism for them to respond to the demands of the communities they represent. De Olho nas Emendas seeks to monitor how that money is spent and what use Brasília's congressmen have given it, mapping each emenda and georeferencing it on an online map. In this way, all citizens can see which projects are actually being financed in their communities or control whether congressmen are not using them properly. The project was awarded 1st place by the W3C Organization during the First OD4D Open Data Software Contest.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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