---
title: Congreso Visible
type: research
status: active
country: CO
website: https://congresovisible.uniandes.edu.co
logo: /assets/org-logos/congreso-visible.svg
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-09
  form: https://congresovisible.uniandes.edu.co/contacto
  source: https://congresovisible.uniandes.edu.co
summary: A legislative transparency project based at the Universidad de los Andes
  since 1998 — tracking all Colombian congressional activity, publishing voting records,
  and running 'Candidatos Visibles' voter information campaigns each election cycle.
concepts:
- radical-transparency
- representative-democracy
- democracy-tools
location:
  latitude: 4.711
  longitude: -74.0721
  name: Bogotá, Colombia
  precision: city
events:
- date: '1998-01-01'
  title: Launched at Universidad de los Andes as Colombia's first legislative transparency
    platform
  url: https://congresovisible.uniandes.edu.co/quesomos
  quote: Desde 1998, el proyecto Congreso Visible del Departamento de Ciencia Política
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: true
activity:
  rss:
    checked: 2026-08-17
    note: No feed found
last_checked: '2026-08-09'
---

Congreso Visible is a legislative transparency project housed in the Department of Political Science at the Universidad de los Andes, tracking and publishing Colombian congressional activity since 1998. It is one of the longest-running parliamentary monitoring initiatives in Latin America and a model of university-hosted accountability infrastructure.

The platform provides public access to: every bill filed in Congress (2,610 in the current legislative term), committee and plenary agendas, voting records (who voted which way on which bill), conflict-of-interest declarations, and profiles of every senator and representative including contact details and legislative history. The data goes back to 1998, creating a quarter-century longitudinal record of Congressional behaviour. Every four years, Congreso Visible runs the Candidatos Visibles campaign — publicising candidate information ahead of legislative and executive elections to enable informed voting.

Congreso Visible is a transparency institution, not a participation platform — it doesn't run citizens' assemblies or participatory budgeting. But in a context where legislative opacity is a structural barrier to democratic accountability, the information infrastructure it provides is a precondition for any meaningful citizen oversight of representative institutions.

## Links

- Website: [congresovisible.uniandes.edu.co](https://congresovisible.uniandes.edu.co)

## See also

- [Radical Transparency](../concepts/radical-transparency.md)
- [Representative Democracy](../concepts/representative-democracy.md)
- [Democracy Tools](../concepts/democracy-tools.md)