Chispa
Chispa is a mobile app designed by the civil society (BETA version in 2014). It aims to create a space for interaction in which citizens are informed about the functioning of Guatemalan democratic institutions, as well as their civil, social and political rights and obligations. In turn, it aims to produce civic education indexes, which can be obtained from the interactive question-answer process of the app. It won the First Place in the "Best Citizens' Apps 2014" contest of the Desarrollando América Latina organization, and was evaluated according to its scalability, design, sustainability possibilities, open data usage, implementation, and potential impact.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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