Pricing Care App
The Pricing Care app was launched in 2014 by the Ministry of Commerce of the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance of the Nation in order to regulate the prices in supermarkets of the products of the basic family basket. The Government established a set of agreements with supermarkets and food companies in order to guarantee certain prices and avoid speculation. In order to monitor, control and ensure compliance with the agreements, the Government provided an online complaint form. Some companies and private initiatives then produced apps for smartphones that, when connected to this complaint form, allow users to scan the bar code of products to check if they are complying with the regulations envisaged, and if not, are able to record the complaint to the app, including information about the product in question and the commercial premises in breach.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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