Lawmaking and oversight
Processes, documents, responsible staff and deadlines connected to institutional memory.
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Digital Democracy – Legislative Intelligence
A new digital infrastructure for the legislature.
The Digital Democracy – Legislative Intelligence programme introduces Hermes DD: a platform designed to connect legislative functions in a common environment, with phased implementation and specialist operations in cooperation with each institution.
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PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
From citizen requests to institutional decisions.
Laws, oversight, budgets and participation often operate in separate systems. Hermes DD proposes linking this information so a request can be tracked from its local origin through legislative analysis, resource allocation and verification of results. Configuration considers each legislature's powers, standing orders and operational capacity.
Tracking resources
Links between planning, budgets, budget amendments and local delivery.
Representation and response
Citizen participation with analysis, referrals and recorded feedback.
AREAS OF WORK
Modules that share context and information.
LEGIS · Legislative process
Organisation of drafting, filing, committees, rapporteurs, agendas, voting and publication. The standing orders engine provides for institution-specific proposal types, quorums, deadlines, signatures and workflows.
FISCALIS · Oversight
Recording requests, information requests, inquiries and hearings. Each action brings together evidence, responsible staff, deadlines, responses and follow-up measures within the legislature's powers.
BUDGET · Budgets and amendments
Links between Brazil's multi-year plan (PPA), budget guidelines law (LDO), annual budget law (LOA), programmes and actions. Tracking the financial stages of budget amendments and evidence of physical delivery, subject to the availability and currency of official sources.
CIVITAS · Citizen participation
Public consultations, contributions linked to specific articles, digital hearings and debates. The proposal includes analysis and feedback with a rationale, a responsible person and a date, allowing each contribution to be tracked.
Cidadão Auditor · Local insights
A channel for reporting issues with a location, description, images and documents. Teams screen reports, check their relevance, refer them to the appropriate bodies and track responses.
Observatories · Public policy
Thematic monitoring of health, education, mobility, the environment and other priorities. Indicators and maps help relate public needs to local conditions.
INTELLIGENCE · Institutional knowledge
Semantic search, links between documents and summaries for technical support. The Hermes Assistant proposes answers accompanied by sources, subject to access permissions and human review.
CORE and Documents · Shared foundation
Identity, roles, workflows, version control, signatures, notifications and auditing. A shared core organises services and preserves the institution's documentary history.
IN PRACTICE
One dashboard. Different dimensions of the same decision.
Unified navigation brings together search, indicators, tasks and role-specific alerts. The aim is to enable staff, advisers and legislators to examine an issue in context while retaining its links to proposals, resources, oversight and public needs.
Context for analysis
Link documents, programmes, agencies, territories and indicators in a knowledge graph.
Attention to what needs a response
Flag approaching deadlines, unanswered requests and situations requiring technical assessment.
Institutional memory for continuity
Preserve versions, rationales, referrals and decision records over time.
EXPLORE IN DETAIL
Architecture, governance and operations in depth.
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Standing orders engine and legislative workflow
Configuration covers proposal types, committee powers, quorums, legislative procedures, deadlines and exceptions. Version comparison, legal references and summaries support technical work. Rules and workflows must be validated by the legislature itself.
Financial and physical oversight
A budget amendment can be linked to its author, amount, implementing agency, municipality, programme and schedule. Financial tracking distinguishes approval, commitment, verification of amounts due and payment; physical delivery is verified through documentation and specific indicators. A financial transfer and the completion of a project or service are separate records.
Participation with feedback
The proposed journey connects information, consultation, contributions, analysis, deliberation and response. A feedback matrix records each contribution's status, rationale, responsible person and date. Local reports undergo screening and verification before informing analyses and actions.
Artificial intelligence under human supervision
Semantic search and the graph connect entities across the legislative domain. Assistant summaries and responses must cite sources, support verification and respect user permissions. Alerts identify situations for analysis; decisions, opinions and institutional acts remain a human responsibility.
Architecture and interoperability
The model organises web and mobile interfaces, APIs and orchestration, functional services, data, graphs and AI, alongside infrastructure. It provides for progressive integration with legislative and financial systems, official gazettes, portals and public databases. Connectors, permissions and update frequencies are defined after a technical assessment of each source.
Security, data protection and continuity
The proposal includes access roles, segregation of duties, multifactor authentication, encryption, audit trails, backup and recovery. Governance must define the purposes, access, retention and processing of personal data. Measures are specified and verified during implementation in accordance with institutional policies.
Hermes Legislative Operations Centre
The model brings together technology, processes, people and ongoing support. The centre can coordinate specialists in legislative operations, oversight and budgets, data and AI, security and digital participation. Staffing, equipment, routines and service levels are defined within each project's scope.
Cooperation and institutional authority
The legislature retains strategic direction, its powers and decisions, workflow validation and responsibility for official information. The operating organisation contributes technology, infrastructure, specialist staff, training, support and ongoing development in accordance with the cooperation agreement and established responsibilities.
THE JOURNEY
Implement in stages. Evolve with the institution.
- 01
Assessment
Map the legislature's processes, systems, records, data and rules.
- 02
Foundation
Configure Core, identity, security and priority integrations.
- 03
LEGIS
Implement the legislative process and validate the standing orders engine.
- 04
FISCALIS + BUDGET
Connect oversight and budget monitoring.
- 05
CIVITAS + Cidadão Auditor
Organise participation, screening and feedback.
- 06
Intelligence + Observatories
Structure relationships, analysis and thematic monitoring.
- 07
Scaling and development
Expand integrations and improve operations based on results.
EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
Results tracked through jointly defined indicators.
Institutional efficiency
Processing time, deadline compliance and the proportion of digital processes.
Transparency and response
Contributions receiving feedback, response times and traceability of actions.
Quality and continuity
Data quality, availability, user satisfaction and budget amendment monitoring.
These are proposed monitoring dimensions, not proven results. Targets, baselines and evaluation criteria are agreed following the assessment. Features and integrations depend on scope, available sources and institutional validation.
IMPLEMENTATION
Operations designed for each local context.
Essential
Core, LEGIS and Documents: shared structure, legislative workflow and institutional memory.
Advanced
Expansion with FISCALIS, BUDGET and CIVITAS according to agreed priorities.
Intelligent
Intelligence, Observatories and Cidadão Auditor connected to the legislature's sources and processes.
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Explore the proposed configuration for state legislative assemblies and municipal councils. Content based on the institutional model “A new digital infrastructure for the Legislative Branch”, provided by IA Instituto.
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