Social Innovation Laboratory
The Social Innovation Laboratory is a space for collective action created in 2012 by the Metropolitan Technological Institute in the city of Medellín, in which communities, scientists, engineers, technologists and other social actors gather to diagnose the problems that affect the quality of life of the inhabitants of Medellín and its surrounding area, and to develop its solutions through its scientific and technological capabilities and knowledge. The Laboratory has extended its project to four additional municipalities in the department of Tolima, and has contributed in the co-creation of multiple innovative and sustainable solutions to problems that affect the quality of life of these zones.
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
- both
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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