The "Global Urban Datafest" Hackathons of Caracas
The ?Global Urban Datafest? Hackathons are programming, development and collaborative design events for innovative solutions for cities. They are organized simultaneously around the world. In Venezuela, the first edition of these Hackathons took place in 2013 under the "Hackathon on Migration in the Americas" title. It had the goal to develop information devices that would help make the migratory movements of the continent visible. The second edition in 2015, under the title "Hackathon of Intelligent Cities", aimed to provide technological solutions to the main urban problems: security, mobility, service delivery, E-government, and the environment and sustainability. Both editions took place in Caracas and were open to programmers, journalists, sociologists, engineers, activists and experts, who worked in mixed and multidisciplinary teams for two or three days. At the end of the event, the most outstanding apps or projects received awards.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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