Colab.re
Colab.re is a social network created in 2013 which connects citizens and municipal governments in order to solve gaps in the provision and evaluation of public services. It also functions as a platform to discuss and propose solutions for problems in public services. Colab.re is a web and smartphone app for iOS and Android where citizens oversee and evaluate services and can propose ideas to public authorities in an interactive manner. The demands are sent directly to the municipal administrations which are registered on the platform and citizens can monitor their progress. Public authorities, in turn, can respond to the demands sent as well as interact with citizens by proposing polls. In addition to providing a means of interaction between public authorities and citizens, Collab.re also issues reports and offers aggregated data on the platform. Collab.re also provides participation and interaction services to other concession holders or civil society organizations who want to manage citizen demands. At the beginning of 2017, around 20 municipalities and more than 90 public entities were registered on the platform.
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
- yes
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