The Observer
The Observer is a public speaking "fact-checking" project that took place in Honduras in 2014. Its methodology was based on an exchange of experiences with other similar projects in Latin America. This digital portal, led by civil society activists, used the rating system of "Chequeado", the leading fact-checking innovation in Argentina, but focused solely on the speeches of public officials. This initiative represents one of the few cases related to the creation of a new media alternative leaded by civil society activists. The experience began and ended in 2014. According to information released, one of the journalists who participated in this initiative was repeatedly threatened in order to stop reporting on political issues. However, according to the available information, the reasons behind the initiative's ending remain unclear.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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