Colombia

Active Citizens

The online government platform Active Citizens was born in the city of Cali in 2013 at the head of a group of independent citizens, with the purpose of connecting citizens with the public sector, thus promoting more efficient public management. The platform allows citizens to publish reports, alerts, problems or citizen projects, in the same way, allows users to participate in an interactive way in each of the problems that arise through the citizen network online. The information is geo-referenced, organized, classified and centralized so that different entities can use citizen feedback and make a better public management. Active Citizens has won two categories of the ''ExcelGel - Excellence in Government Online'' awards granted in Colombia by the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications in November 2013.

Institutional design

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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 no decision  
Co-Governance
yes 

Means


  • Deliberation
  • Direct Voting
  • E-Participation
  • Citizen Representation

Ends


  • Accountability
  • Responsiveness
  • Rule of Law
  • Political Inclusion
  • Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting
Formulation and decision-making
Implementation
Policy Evaluation

Sources

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