Citizen Platform for an Informed and Transparent Vote
The Citizen Platform for an Informed and Transparent Vote is an association of independent civil society organizations, academics and professionals, interested in the promotion of democratic culture, citizen participation, electoral monitoring, citizen control and the organization of programmatic deliberation in relation to electoral processes in Bolivia. Its main objectives have to do with the promotion of informed voting, citizen participation and citizen monitoring of electoral processes through citizen initiatives such as observation, control, and security. For this purpose, it has developed websites that allow the transmission of testimonies and news of incidents that occur during the campaign and election day; and the distribution of audiovisual material to promote an informed and transparent vote. They also generate infographics on various topics and report on election timelines.
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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