CityCop
City Cop is an app created in Uruguay, designed as a collective tool where you can send alerts about criminal acts. It is also designed to bring allegations that may never reach the authorities. In addition users can set up areas they frequent in order to keep track of what goes on in these zones. Beyond the complaints and follow-up functions for users, creators hope that the page can be used as an input for police work and for the Ministry of the Interior in terms of necessary actions and decisions. For this purpose City Cop publishes statistics on the cities in which it operates with the information entered. The categories of crimes that can be reported are: robbery of personal items, of a vehicle, business or home, suspicious activity, homicide, vandalism, crimes related to drugs and other crimes. Additionally, the app allows citizens to post "safety tips" for specific areas and receive real-time alerts of what is happening in areas of their interest. In Latin America, the app is used in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile.
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
- no
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