Transparência e Integridade, Associação Cívica
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Founding Story
João Paulo
Batalha
Transparência e Integridade, Associação Cívica
, Lisboa
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The main goal is applying the solution to the public institutions of the central State, further expanding it to the local institutional authorities. This way, the solution will be the natural resource for the citizens to ask to the authorities more access to the public interest information, going automatically to any institution in the country. Transparência e Integridade, a Portuguese NGO, has been working with a partner organization in Brazil, (Amarribo) in access to information projects, whereas the creation of an identical solution, customized to the brazilian reality, will be the natural step for the development of the project.
The main barrier for the success of the project will be the lack of adhesion by the citizens. Because of that, we'll do a communication campaign addressed to the citizens, in social network medias and with the media's support in the meaning of promoting the solution and encouraging people to use the platform. Another important target for the success the project will be the NGOs and other organizations from civil society (like environment organizations) that typically address the information requests to public authorities and that, this way, will have a simpler and more intuitive platform to use in their campaigns.
Transparência e Integridade Associação Cïvica is a Portuguese NGO, member of the Transparency International (TI) net, present in over 100 countries around the world. We have a partnership with the Brazilian association Amarribo (local correspondent of TI), with whom we are trying to boost a joint project of information access in a local level. In a regular basis, we share resources with other TI chapters in Europe and worldwide.
Demonstrate how closed feedback loops can make a difference in people’s lives.
The solution is a common point between citizens and NGOs looking for public information with the State authorities; and the public organs in charge for spreading public interest data and consulting citizens in their decision processes of public policies. In a single platform we promote the common point between the State and citizens, ensuring a channel for the civil society to be heard and for the public institutions to answer to people's queries, resulting in more participative and informed public policies, with more civic awareness.
English, Portuguese.
We intend to create a direct line between the citizens and public institutions, so they can access information of public interest more easily, e so the institutions are aware of it and provide in a pro-active way more information to the citizens, enhancing their processes and accountability systems.
Accountability to external partners
Website.
The citizens ask for information to the institutions through our platform and this platform allows the citizens to evaluate the amount of answers received. In one spot, the citizens can make and manage access requests to public information. The institutions, on the other hand, can access the requests made to them, verify it’s evaluation and measure their answering capacity.
Secured protection on information
Confirmation of use of feedback
Specific targeted outreach efforts
Pressure through media outlets
Reports on collected information
On a website
An Environment NGO may ask to the Environment Ministry to make public a study of environmental impact and use the information to pose better environmental measures, in the ambit of an intervention of public space project.
A company may ask to the Financial Ministry to disclose information about all service agreements in a specific area and use this information to prepare more competitive commercial proposals.
I’d turn this electronic tool in the official resource channel of public institutions for reception, management an answer to requests of public information from citizens, institutions or companies. That would ensure, immediately, a greater level of use of this platform by the public institutions, which are fundamental entities for our project’s success. Without that, disclosure and formation actions will be made and we’ll use the public pressure to stimulate the adoption by the worst positioned entities (between those that didn’t answer or didn’t answer efficiently to the public information requests.).
Other
Lack of answers from public entities to the requests made through the platform, demotivating the users.
No, but I would like to be on it
The Feedback Store might be very useful to find similar solutions and collect ideas for complementary functionalities that we may include in our tool, having worked in other countries.
The platform will have functionality segments that will allow the citizens, companies and institutions to indicate what they have done with the public information they’ve collected, thus measuring the impact of the feedback cycle in the creation of new ideas and participation. The best experiences will be shared, so the citizens understand the impact caused by good use of public information and State entities better comprehend its potential as partners in the data propagation and innovation support, to the civic participation e the optimizing of public policies, in a collaborative spirit with the civil society.