HuecosMed
Huecomed is an application for mobile phones developed by the Mayor's Office of Medellín within the framework of the Online Government. This innovation was conceived with the objective of including civil society in the monitoring of potholes in the streets of the city. This digital participation mechanism allows citizens to report to the municipality the exact place where the hole is located, either indicating the address, or allowing the application to identify the current location of the person or take the coordinates from a Photo. The report is sent directly to the Secretary of Physical Infrastructure, which verifies and programs the repair of the pothole. Until October 2013, more than 2,000 holes had been reported on the streets of the 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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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