Cultural Café
The Café Cultura (lit. Culture Café) program creates spaces for debate with various actors (cultural centers, development societies, and clubs) in order to strengthen spaces for social transformation based on reflection and dialogue. Café Cultura works through the development of free meetings and conferences in different parts of the country, in which intellectuals, officials, scientists, artists, economists and journalists from all over the country share and discuss opinions, experiences and knowledge in relation to a wide diversity of themes: cultural, social, educational, political and economic. Local community action groups are involved in planning the meetings, in conjunction with the public sector. From its inception in 2005 until its completion in 2015, the program convened more than 3200 meetings in 22 provinces and a total of 197 cities.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- 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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