"Title","Author","Summary","Body","Date posted","Country","Ongoing","Start Date","End Date","","Staff Type","","","","","","","","","Facilitation?"
"Icelandic Constitutional Council 2011","AlexEIPP","","The Constitutional Council was a body of 25 appointed Icelandic citizens, which was charged with creating a constitutional draft between 6 April and 29 July 2011. Initially the constitution was meant to be revised by a nationally elected assembly, but...","Wed, 08/31/2011 - 15:20","Iceland","Yes","","","Education & Schools, Budgeting, Economic Development, Environment, Health, Immigration, National & International Security, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems), Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","members of the public","Express opinions/preferences only","National Government","Co-governance (i.e. to share decision making with public authorities)","Open to all, Election","Crowdsourcing","National","National Government, Other","National Government","No"
"Legislative e-Democracia","Cristiano Ferri Faria","Legislative e-Democracia is driven by a belief that the lawmaking process can benefit from the convergence of political representation and citizen participation, in a virtuous cycle where one model strengthens the other. People in contemporary societies have very diverse interests, experiences, expertise and values. The great challenge in making social participation feasible is to find out how to take advantage of such diversity and incorporate it into the policy-making system. The engine behind e-Democracia is a ‘multiple participatory mechanism,’ a kind of electronic, permeable sponge that enables people to share their professional experience and expertise, express their personal and collective interests and values, and foster creative ideas in different forms and intensity, in all phases of the policy-making cycle. That participation may consider any contribution that citizens want to deliver, or are technically able to present. Some persons would be interested in merely discussing ideas (solutions) in public forums, whereas others can be engaged in drafting, simply uploading useful information to describe the problem or presenting arguments to support ideas. One could even help to merely rank better ideas. Besides participants, there will be many other citizens who are satisfied with simply monitoring the legislative discussion. ","The original version of this case study first appeared on Vitalizing Democracy in 2010 and was a contestant for the 2011 Reinhard Mohn Prize. It was originally submitted by Cristiano Ferri S. Faria.Legislative e-Democracia is driven by a belief that the...","Tue, 05/21/2013 - 12:10","Brazil","No","","","Identity & Diversity, Political Institutions (e.g. Constitutions, Legal Systems, Electoral Systems), Planning (e.g. Urban planning, Transportation, etc.)","","Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation","National Government","Consultation (i.e. to advise decision makers), Raise public awareness, Community building (e.g. social capital), Develop individual capacities (e.g. skills, learning)","Open to all, Open to all with targeted recruitment","Online Consultations, e-Deliberation™, Crowdsourcing","National","National Government","","Yes"