24 September 2025
Speaker: Ana Marusia Pinheiro Lima (Supervisor for Relationship and Participation, Chamber of Deputies, Brazil)
Chair: Dr Alex Prior (Lecturer in Politics with International Relations at London South Bank University and IPEN Executive Team member)
Details: This IPEN seminar will focus on the Debates Interativos – an interactive tool used by the Chamber of Deputies in Brazil to expand the channels of citizen participation in the legislative process and strengthen democratic debate.
One of a range of participation and communication platforms, citizens can use the Debates Interativos to interact online with the activities of committees at the time they take place, by sending questions to deputies and guests and voting up questions they deem most important. After the meetings, the entire interactive debate is available on the platform, in order to increase the transparency of decisions.
In this seminar, Ana Marusia Pinheiro Lima will explore the Debates Interativos including how it is used, its advantages and challenges. Marusia will address how the tool allows for diversity of opinions, real interactivity, transparency of the processes involved in the holding of debates and compliance with public and collective interests in moderating the debate, as well as challenges associated with these.
This online seminar will take place in MS Teams and is open to members of the International Parliament Engagement Network (IPEN).
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