City Cop
City Cop is an app created in Uruguay, designed as a collective tool where you can send alerts about criminal acts. It is also designed to bring allegations that may never reach the authorities. In addition users can set up areas they frequent in order to keep track of what goes on in these zones. Beyond the complaints and follow-up functions for users, creators hope that the page can be used as an input for police work and for the Ministry of the Interior in terms of necessary actions and decisions. For this purpose City Cop publishes statistics on the cities in which it operates with the information entered. In 2015, City Cop Uruguay already had more than 60 thousand users. However, a job with the Ministry has not yet materialized, although the Ministry declared its interest in the project. City Cop has already reached several countries in Latin America where it was also tried to establish contacts with the respective authorities.
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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