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Include government branch field for government bodies #1027

Closed romifz closed 2 years ago

romifz commented 4 years ago

Action item from the latest OCDS retreat. Description is

Think of including a field about the branch of the government. Investigate extension, who uses it, Colombia?

The related extension is https://github.com/sdd1982/branch, which adds a branch field for the branch of the government the buyer/procuring entity belongs to. As far as I can tell, the only publisher using this is Colombia.

Related: #711

duncandewhurst commented 2 years ago

I think that adding a field named branch could lead to confusion between branches of government and branch offices. Alternatively, the field could be named branchOfGovernment.

In Colombia's extension, the field is free-text. Alternatively, the field could use an open codelist with the 3 most common branches: legislature, executive, and judiciary. However, in that case the field might also need to be an array due to the fusion of powers in some parliamentary forms of government.

In any case, there hasn't been any engagement since this issue was originally opened and it seems to be relevant to only one publisher, so we should perhaps seek further input before adding it to the standard.

jpmckinney commented 2 years ago

This is also more a national/state-level concern than one that affects all governments/parties. I think it’s fine to leave unstandardized, but we can re-open if there is new engagement.

yolile commented 2 years ago

Something similar is also used in Paraguay, with new fields in parties.details declared in a local extension, eg:

"details": {
  "level": "Poder Ejecutivo",
  "entityType": "Organismos de la Administración Central",
  "type": "Entidad"
}

But I agree that this differs from country to country and having local extensions seems to be enough.