Media and Citizenship: Education, an Obligation for All
Media and Citizenship: Education, an Obligation for All was a participatory exercise carried out between 1997 and 2002, resulting from the unification of interests to develop actions in the field of civic journalism and to expand possibilities of application of the so-called deliberative methodology in Colombia, organized by the Department of Political Science at the University of the Andes. To achieve this, the Department established an alliance with the newspaper El Tiempo, which expressed the desire to offer a dialogue space between its readers and the programmatic projects of the candidates for the upcoming presidential elections. After considering several thematic possibilities, it decided to work on the subject of Public Education, based on the relevance of the subject for the country's future development. Likewise, it was pertinent to relate this issue to the advent of presidential elections for the period 1998-2002. The exercise was carried out in five cities: Bogota, Cali, Barranquilla, Chia and Ubaté, in all which citizens from the local community were invited to participate. The methodology consisted, during the first phane, of carrying out deliberative forums in which the participants presented, based on a guide developed by the organizers, their approaches on four main areas of education previously defined by a group of experts. In a second phase, a series of citizen meetings were held, in which the deliberation took place around previously defined issues of education; this time, however, the format foresaw that the goals of the National Development Plan would be compared and contrasted with data on the education reality of each respective city.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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