[1][2][3] The website was established months after the creation of the Access to Information Law, meeting the demands for transparency in public power.

[12][13] On November 27, 2015, at the initiative of the Senate of the Future Commission, the e-Cidadania program was regulated, giving it legal certainty.

The idea incited debate with the population in six interactive public hearings[19] and obtained an opinion from the CDH for the creation of a temporary subcommittee on the topic.

[24][25] In November 2019, Senator Zenaide Maia (PROS-RN), adopted the first legislative idea presented in Libras[26] on the e-Cidadania portal, by a student from Federal District.

5,961/2019,[28] presented by the senator with the same content of the idea, seeks to include the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) in school curricula for all students, not only deaf ones.

In July 2020, Senator Paulo Paim (PT-SP) adopted a Legislative Suggestion[29] and presented its content as a bill,[30] giving credit to the author in the text's justification.

The Suggestion, which came from a Legislative Idea published on the e-Cidadania portal, seeks to guarantee the concession of a fourteenth salary to retirees and pensioners from the INSS in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[31] In total, by March 2020, 67 suggestions originating from ideas sent by citizens were not taken up for various reasons during voting in the Federal Senate's Commission on Human Rights and Participative Legislation (CDH).

[57] The idea of criminalizing Brazilian funk as a public health crime to children, adolescents and the family (SUG No.

To enable accessibility for deaf people and citizens who communicate in Libras, in May 2019, the e-Cidadania Portal became the first body in Brazil to receive Legislative Ideas via video.

Regimentally, only parliamentarians and guests have the right to speak in person during events such as thematic debate sessions, public hearings, and sabatinas.

[64] In addition, the tool also makes available to citizens the video of the event broadcast, slides presented by the speakers, guests, and other information when pertinent.

The record number of participations in an interactive event was in the hearing that debated the transparency of the S system (SESI, SENAC, SENAI) in April 2018,[65] with 2,400 comments or questions.

[71] The events to choose the Attorney General of the Republic in August 2015 and the President of the Central Bank in May 2016 are examples of sabatinas in which popular manifestations were read during the meetings.

1 of 2017 from the Nísia Floresta Commission,[79] which makes internet application providers responsible for the dissemination of fake news or offensive content to third parties.

[80] Citizens can express their opinion in favor or against all propositions (bills, proposed amendments to the Constitution, provisional measures, etc.)

As an example, there is the project of the Medical Act (PLS 350/2014), which listed activities that would be exclusive to people trained in medicine, affecting other categories, such as tattooists.