The Right to Not Obey
The Right to No Obey is a platform for citizen initiatives that revolves around processes of active democratic participation, in contexts that are located outside electoral politics. The name comes from the work of the Colombian philosopher Fernando González and is a project coordinated by different groups of citizens, with the support of the Otraparte Corporation, the Buena Nota Foundation and the Open Society Foundation. It is created in the city of Medellín in 2018, and participates with projects in the cities of Bogotá, Cali, and Cúcuta. The platform seeks to weave citizen networks, build mobilization capacities, and promote spaces for dialogue between citizens and government, as well as promote processes to support open governments in Colombia. They have worked on issues of citizen participation, coexistence and security, air quality and migration.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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