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Lisbon City Hall - Participatory Budgeting
Lisbon Participatory budgeting (here in after, Lx-PB) structure is designed in such a way that the public and the city council should work together. It also embraces ICT, that is, it uses the internet and SMS, encourages the people to take part – face-to-face as well as through online platform (https://www.lisboaparticipa.pt/). The face-to-face platform where the citizens of Lisbon could take part in budgeting process is known as Participatory Assemblies (PAs, here in after). Often, several PAs take place during Spring and Autumn time period. PAs allow the participants to propose new proposals, present to the audience and discuss. Comments and inputs from the participants will be included into the proposal. Nevertheless, where in PAs a person can submit two proposals, an online portal can only accept one proposal. The rationale behind is to encouraged citizens to meet and deliberate on their proposals face-to-face. Besides, it sparks “contest of ideas” (Dias, 2010) among proposers and the latter also invite citizens to vote on the proposal
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Economy & Finance
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Agenda Setting
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Ease of use
High
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Smart City
Smart Government
Citizen-centred policy-making
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| SWOT Analysis for Lisbon City Hall - Participatory Budgeting |
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Strengths• Promotes transparency: open to any person over 18 years of age to take part in the process. Open to officials, representatives of associations, companies, civil society and NGOs in the city. • The development of Participatory Associations (PAs) and Polling stations (PSs), in 2012. PAs serve as the space for question formulation and discussion, PSs serves as a space for casting votes for those who lack access to the internet facility. • Capability to generate a concrete decision-making space beyond representative elections • Flexibility • Evolutive essence: continuously evolve and updates itself. has working rules and working groups dedicated to Lx-PB process. • Open process: has annual review of the process and receives feedbacks from the stakeholders |
Weaknesses• Limitation in decision-making capacity of citizens, since “filtering” is performed by an institutional entity and the choices made can be perceived by citizens as ´discretionary´ and ill-founded • The process and implementation of projects is time consuming. • Limited Deliberation: lack of discussion on proposals |
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Opportunities• Promotes transparency: open to any person over 18 years of age to take part in the process. Open to officials, representatives of associations, companies, civil society and NGOs in the city. • It activates citizens to play active role in decision-making process in defining public policies and strategies of their municipality. • A remarkable result has been achieved in terms of increasing participants. Every year, the number of participants, proposals and projects increases |
Threats• Credibility of the voting process is being compromised due to Lack of supervision over the procedure of registration of voters, voting mechanism, lack of clarity of web portals displaying proposals, and infiltration of fake emails and names the online voting mechanism is susceptible to falsely “organized lobbies and subscribers” • Lacks broader transformative goal such as “redistributive justice ... greater transparency and accountability • Lack of commitment of the City Council • General distrust in public institution |
