Crystal Ballot Box
The Crystal Ballot Box was created in 2010 as the primary platform of the Colombian government based on information and communication technologies that aim to transform the relationship between citizens and the State through citizen participation and an increase of Government transparency. The idea is that the government has no chance of hiding from public scrutiny. The initiative operates through different means, both for citizens who do not have access to the Internet, and for those who do. The initiative seeks to make communication more interactive from three fronts. The first is the consultation, where the citizen asks and the government responds; the second is pedagogical, from which the government solves doubts and teaches the citizen; and the third is the participatory exercise, in which the citizen directly affects public policy. Internally, the ballot box has done a basic job of organizing and distributing responsibilities, creating a network between ministries and government agencies, where each one is responsible for the issues related to its management, and the Ballot Box acts as a channel between the government and the Citizens.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
Means
|
Ends
|
