Digital Talks: We must talk about Chile
The Digital Conversations: We have to talk about Chile was an initiative of the Catholic University and the University of Chile. It consisted of a thousand virtual dialogues in which citizens from all over the country were invited to participate. In the selection of participants, an effort was made to include those who, due to their geographic location or socioeconomic conditions, do not normally participate in participatory processes. The conversations, facilitated by a moderator, took place in groups of 4 and 8 people and lasted approximately one hour. In the dialogues, citizens contributed their perspectives on the state and main problems of the country and proposed solutions. The universities then systematize the results of the dialogues and deliver them to public sector authorities for them to serve as inputs to orient public policies.
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 a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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