Our São Paulo Forum and Debates
The Forum Our São Paulo (in Portuguese Nossa São Paulo) was organized by a network with the same name. Its purpose was to enable citizens to present proposals to address the main social, economic, political, environmental and urban challenges they identified in the city of São Paulo, based on indicators developed by members of the organizing institution. Prior to the forum, as a preparatory stage, a series of debates were held, in which citizens and representatives of universities and companies took part. In the meetings, which totaled more than 60, the participants discussed topics related to transparency in public management and the quality of life of the population (for example, the role of the court of accounts in the control of public accounts and the role of the sub-mayors' offices in participatory democracy). At the forum, 900 proposals were presented, which were subsequently sent to the candidates running for mayor of the city.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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