Chile

Bicycles for a better life. Bike Culture Festival

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2006 – 2011
Name of organization in charge: Centro de BiciculturaCorPSración Cultural MetroculturaMetro de SantiagoS.A.Club DePSrtivo CicloRecreoVíaNovonordisk ChileBlue CompanyComunidad BligooGobierno de la Región MetroPSlitana de SantiagoGama Bikes
Type of organization in charge: government civil society private stakeholders
Level: regional

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: yes

?Bicycles for a better life. Bike Culture Festival? is a project developed by the Center for Bike Culture of Santiago de Chile with the purpose of socially promoting the transformation of the urban mobilization system. This, with the ultimate aim of having a favorable impact on the problems of climate change and the democratization of cities. In its first stage, the project identified and diagnosed the main obstacles to the development of cycling in Chile. After this, several actions were taken to promote the use of bicycles. Within the framework of the project, the first Citizenship-Government Working Group for the Promotion of Bicycle and Bike Culture in Chile was created, coordinated by the Bike Culture Center, Ciudad Viva, the Ministry of Transport and the Regional Government of Santiago, in which forty government institutions, universities and companies participated. Also, in July 2009, the Bill for the Promotion of the Use of Bicycles and the Development of Bike Culture, currently being processed by the Congress of Chile, was drafted and presented, and approved in the first instance by the unanimity of the deputies. Furthermore, the citizen campaign to collect signatures for the Bicycle Pact that reactivates with each festival, counted about 60,000 signers in 2016.

Institutional design

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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: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens civil society private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Evaluation