Democratic City
Cidade Democrática (lit. Democratic City) is a platform created in 2009 to bring together citizens, public managers, congressmen and congresswomen, NGOs, activist's groups, companies, schools, churches and conferences to develop collaboratively solutions to identified common problems. The platform allows people to crowd-source the identification of problems and the development of solutions, while bringing together different stakeholders with shared interests. To engage, one can start an issue and collaborate or take part in a competition proposing a solution to a given problem. Until 2017, there were 9 finished competitions and 1 ongoing and 2545 identified issues.
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 civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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