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OP Digital: Belo Horizonte's Online Participatory Budget

Revision 2026-08-20-source-dates · effective 2026-08-02

Current revision. This is the snapshot used by the live entity page.

unreviewed

Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 1 claim and 3 source dossiers.

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Change set

  • add /evidencePassport — Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers.
  • add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.
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source dossiers
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publication dates recorded
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archives linked
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exact locators
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content captures hashed

Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-57cd89ffd57bbf2a quantitative
about 173,000 voters in 2006, 124,000 in 2008, and 25,000 in 2011
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
No support note recorded
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Redalyc — "Orçamento Participativo de Belo Horizonte"

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-20-source-dates effective 2026-08-02 · created 2026-08-20

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of 1 claims mapped
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source dossiers
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publication dates recorded
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archives linked
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exact locators
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content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte (municipal government)
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

3 source dossiers

Politize! — "Orçamento Participativo Digital: o caso de Belo Horizonte" politize.com.br · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-a9ddb1249b61f7d7
Publisher
Name not classified · politize.com.br
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2017-04-13
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

2006 launch, online/telephone voting mechanism (one of four works per region), 2008 edition detail (over 113,000 votes, 90% via internet/10% telephone), UN 'Best Practice' recognition, R$70M+ in approved works from the 2006-2008 period.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Redalyc — "Orçamento Participativo de Belo Horizonte" redalyc.org · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-2ced34d9e573f820
Publisher
Name not classified · redalyc.org
Type / language
pdf · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
Open archived copy ↗ · 2024-07-10
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Academic source (appearing consistently across search results) for the program's four digital cycles (2006, 2008, 2011, 2013) and the declining-turnout figures per edition (~173,000 in 2006, ~124,000 in 2008, ~25,000 in 2011).

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
O Tempo — "BH volta a ter Orçamento Participativo com verba de R$ 73 mi" (2024) otempo.com.br · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-b9b82837165bd1a3
Publisher
Name not classified · otempo.com.br
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-03-21
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-02
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Confirms the broader participatory-budget process was suspended after 2015/2016 and resumed in 2024 in a form focused on villages, favelas and Special Social Interest Zones (ZEIS), with no mention of restored online voting.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.