Government Laboratory
The Government Laboratory is a multidisciplinary co-creation space within the Open Government area of the City of Buenos Aires, designed to host and promote meetings between officials, developers, universities, NGOs, academics and other social actors. The main objective for the founding of this space was to work collectively to discuss public interests and solve city problems. The space is organized in several sections: a Project Accelerator, a Digital Factories for Development and Prototyping, an R & D area of New Technologies for Research and Development, and a Resident Innovators program for citizens and selected projects. The Lab also organizes various activities such as Hacking, Workshops and marathons of innovation to increase the supply and demand of public data and strengthen the relationship between the government and the community.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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