Process of participation in the Lleras Law projects
This participatory process was born from the first presentation of the bill known as "Lleras Law" in 2011, which proposed that companies that provide internet services could remove content seemingly infringing on copyright. Among the main factors that have prevented this law from being approved as presented by the Senators is the active citizen participation over the last years, arguing that the bill was presented as a requirement for the free trade agreements with the United States and therefore uses regulations of this country from previous years in which there were no advances in the internet such as social networks. Therefore, they affirm that they are based on obsolete approaches that do not apply in the Colombian context. Different social stakeholders from different sources have been gathered that are affected by the proposal and have submitted their concerns and proposals to different bodies such as the Congress of the Republic or the Constitutional Court. Thanks to this participation, in addition to other factors that have influenced the failure of the bill, four more versions have been presented before the Congress of the Republic and none have passed to become a definitive Law.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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