Smart Cities Hackathon
The Smart Cities Hackathon is a marathon for hackers that takes place simultaneously in 30 cities around the world. It brings together technology experts with the aim of looking for optimal solutions to daily problems. It is an annual event that began in Honduras in 2015. The central theme of the smart cities initiative is to contribute with functional applications to the fields of education, transportation, health, public administration and public safety. The hackathon is implemented by developing software or hardware throughout an entire weekend. Projects are presented before a panel of judges on Sunday afternoon. The hackathon generates functional prototypes in 24 hours, using tools that allow its rapid and consistent development.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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