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Participatory Budgeting and ICTs
Tiago Peixoto WBIGV
ICT4Gov Program
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What role for ICT in participatory budgeting? 1. communication / mobilization 2. remote participation 3. oversight of budget exeuction
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mobilization to participation
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Ipatinga, Brasil
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experiment (EC funded)
4 districts
31.000 geo-targeted calls inviting citizens to the PB assemblies 3.000 geo-targeted SMS
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RESULTS?
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Compared to previous years,
16% increase of participation in selected districts
14% decrease of participation in non-
participating districts (control regions) Difference: 30%
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over 80% of participants considered the phone as a useful / extremely useful means for promoting participation in the deliberative process
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effectiveness of different means of communication
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remote participation
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participation costs
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problem:
low participation
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Belo Horizonte Participatory Budgeting
2.4 million inhabitants Budget: US$ 43 million
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participation (≈ 1.5%)
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e-Participatory Budgeting
reduce participation costs participation
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e-Participatory Budgeting (e-PB)
US$ 11 million e-Voting (unique identifier: electoral ID) US$ 1.2 million per public work (e.g. health,
education)
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facilitating remote participation 178 public points with trained personnel for
assistance access provided by supporters Internet equipped mobile unit (i.e. bus) 42 day voting period
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voting period
42 days
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total participants: 172.938
7.5% of inhabitants
10% eligible participants
highest turnout in poorest areas
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RECURSOS
PARTICIPANTES
TRADICIONAL
US$ 43 MILLION
1.5 %
DIGITAL
US$ 11 MILLION
10 %
11 million inhabitants
Budget: US$ 93.5 million
1.22 million inhabitants (18.2%)
SCALE: RIO GRANDE DO SUL STATE
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phone
image courtesy of kiwanja.net
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face-to-face meetings: participation rate < 2% remote voting: participation rate > 11.2% (45.000 participants)
La Plata’s Mobile PB (AR)
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Why increase participation through ICTs? increase inclusiveness of the process increase popular support for decisions taken and the process function as an entry point to other forms of participation increase political and administrative buy-in
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oversight of budget execution
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monthly traffic: 5.700 visits 4.500 sms queries
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ICT and budgeting: context specific? Argentina Brazil Colombia Dominican Republic (ICT4Gov) Democratic Republic of Congo (ICT4Gov) India Peru Kenya…
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world PB mapping (≈15%)
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tech4transparency network
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Thank you! [email protected]
online resources PB Facebook group http://groups.to/pb/ PB world mapping http://tiny.cc/pbmapping ICT&Governance http://twitter.com/participatory WBI PB course http://bit.ly/wbiparbud 72 FAQ about PB http://bit.ly/72faq Guide to PB (Wampler) http://bit.ly/guidepb Belo Horizonte case study http://bit.ly/digitalPB Mobile PB article http://bit.ly/mobilePB La Plata case description http://bit.ly/platapb Participedia http://www.participedia.net/ Tech 4 transparency http://bit.ly/techtrans