Open Parliament — A more accessible Legislature through regional Assembly sessions and a transparent digital portal for tracking parliamentary funds. (BRSCS0006)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Action plan – Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2026 – 2026
Inception Report: Not available
Commitment Start: Jan 2026
Commitment End: Dec 2026
Institutions involved:
- Legislative Assembly of the State of Santa Catarina (ALESC) / Legislative School (Escola do Legislativo Deputado Lício Mauro da Silveira)
- Legislative Assembly of the State of Santa Catarina (ALESC) / Legislative School (Escola do Legislativo Deputado Lício Mauro da Silveira
- OAB/SC (Brazilian Bar Association - Santa Catarina Section)
Primary Policy Area:
Primary Sector:
OGP Value:
- Civic Participation
- Access to information
- Public Accountability
Description
Commitment ID
BRSCS0006
Commitment Title
Open Parliament - Bring the State Legislative Branch closer to the population through Assembly actions across different regions and the digital modernization of parliamentary amendment transfers, strengthening citizen participation, coordination with
Problem
The physical centralization of parliamentary operations in the state capital limits the ability of citizens in outer regions to engage with lawmakers. Additionally, the traditional allocation, distribution, and tracking of parliamentary amendments (emendas parlamentares) have lacked digital transparency, making it difficult for civil society to exercise public social control.
Status quo
While the Alesc Itinerante project has traveled to decentralized regions since 2024, a unified public transparency platform for political funds was missing. In late 2025, an institutional prototype of the Portal de Emendas was engineered, but it required systemic open-access upgrades, testing with qualified audiences and municipal training.
Action
This commitment blends physical decentralization with digital openness. It mandates temporarily moving the legislative seat to diverse regions to hold public sessions and process regional bills while fully rolling out the digital Portal de Emendas platform. It specifically focuses on adding a co-created open module for public social control and training local municipal servants.
How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?
It bridges geographical divides by allowing local communities to directly influence legislative debates and budget priorities in their own regions. Digitally, it provides radical traceability over the execution of parliamentary resources, enabling municipal administrators and citizens to audit where and how public investments are distributed.
What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?
It directly advances legislative openness, fiscal accountability, integrity in public expenditure, and active civic oversight over state resources.
Primary Policy Area
Legislative Openness, Open Data
Primary Sector
Legislature
What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?
| Civic Participation | Descentralizes plenary and committee operations to invite direct community collaboration in shaping localized laws and regional funding needs |
| Access to information | Centralizes data regarding the distribution and requirements of parliamentary resources into an open-access platform. |
| Public Accountability | Introduces dedicated social control modules designed explicitly to allow the public to audit and track political fund management. |