Venezuela

Catia TVE

City/State/Region: Caracas
Begin – End: 2001 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Comunidad de Catia
Type of organization in charge: civil society
Level: local

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: -
Policy Outcome: -

Catia TVE is a television channel from the Catia neighborhood in Caracas. Catia residents run it, design it and render up to 70 percent of the programming through community organizations. In this way, between 45 and 50 Independent Community Audiovisual Production Teams were formed, consisting of 4 or 5 people each, who after passing through a training workshop in audiovisual production start to produce content. The themes covered by these Independent Community Audiovisual Production Teams cover a variety of topics, but, above all, highlight issues related to health, education, environment, work and housing, giving voice and space to the cultural, ethnic and generational minorities of Afro, Indigenous and mestizo Venezuelans. The case of Catia Tve, along with other community radio and emerging television projects, marked a milestone in the process of democratizing the radio spectrum and was of influence in the subsequent sanction process of the "Regulation of Radio Broadcasting and Open Television Community for Non-Profit Public Service" in the year 2002.

Institutional design

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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: embedded in the constitution/legislation
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: citizens
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a binding decision
Co-Governance: no

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation