Urban Society Xalapa
Urban Society Xalapa is a mobile app project that promotes safe taxi rides. It allows one to call and book the nearest taxi, identifying it by its license number. At the same time, the app notifies three user contacts when the trip is complete. During the travel time, the user can report incidents he / she watches on the street, such as traffic jams or accidents, and can consult relevant information of the city. With this app the team of Urban Society Xalapa want citizens to travel more and better. It keeps citizens informed of what is happening in their city and on their daily routes in addition to encouraging them to participate by reporting events and rewarding their collaboration.
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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