Example:
Colombia's Reporting Across Committees
Index of Legislative Transparency
What we find:
Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency
First Dimension:
Normative Framework
- No country fulfills what we considered to be the minimum legal framework requirements to build the institutional base necessary for legislative transparency.
Limitations:
- Based on content and not in form,
- One place in time- not a historical assessment,
- Administrative Congressional differences across countries
Still need to add:
- Availability of historical data
- adding formats,
- clicks, tagging, and indexing
- Timing of information
Index of Legislative Transparency: First Take at Comparing Five Legislatures:
Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Perú
Second Dimension:
Reports on Legislative Activity
What we find:
- In the best of cases, the information is there, but it is difficult to find.
- In the worst cases, there is not enough information to evaluate what legislators do within Congress.
- Plenaries are more visible than committees in all Congresses.
- Trade-off between format and content: Mexico and Chile have the best formats, but the variety of information if smaller.
Third Dimension:
Budget and Administrative Information
All Dimensions For All Countries
Fourth Dimension:
Promoting Citizen’s Participation and Accesibility to Information
What we find:
- Citizen's access to information