Political Map
The Political Map is a tool that allows citizens to identify the congressmen and councilors representing the inhabitants of each territory and establish dialogue with other citizens, helping them to organize and mobilize to implement social control of the parliaments, calling on them to be more accountable. This tool has been created by the Corporation for Social Control - CONTRIAL - with the purpose of disseminating knowledge, generating collective learning and activating citizen participation. The Political Map was born out of the proposal of a mixed electoral system for Colombia. The tool ensures that the inhabitants of smaller territories currently elected to parliaments are organized and able to exercise social control and that their representative is recognized as such and takes responsibility for it. The tool can be accessed online, where it indicates the department, municipality or locality that the representative wants to know about, and from here the page will show the congressperson, at the national and regional level or councilor at the local level, who should represent that territory in accordance with the votes obtained in the last elections, if the mixed electoral system were in force. The tool displays information about the profile of the representative and its management, as well as the territory it represents, including population, electoral potential, abstention, total voting, null votes, unmarked votes and effective votes.
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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