Oincs
Oincs is a mobile app that allows its users to identify, locate and share information about events in the city such as traffic, damaged roads, crimes, but also so-called "social denunciations" as dangerous zones or officials carrying out an improper act. It is also present on Twitter and Facebook. The history of the app began with the Twitter account @chanchosuy, named by the local traffic inspectors, who in Uruguay are known informally as "pigs". It is one of the most popular and downloaded apps in the history of Uruguay. The creators also want to expand the functioning of the Web to be a means of communication between government and citizens as well as a source of information for police or firefighters. It has also become a source of information for the media. In 2015, Oincs won recognition for the Entrepreneurship with Greatest Potential for Growth and the most innovative concept in the Demand Solutions contest of the Inter-American Development Bank, naming it a project within the concept of collaborative cities and a G2C platform (government to citizen). The application is expanding to more and more cities in Latin America.
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
- no
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