InfoAmazonia Colombia
InfoAmazonia Colombia is a data journalism initiative by the Brazil-based non profit organization InfoAmazonia. Started in 2012, the initiative reports about deforestation in the Colombian Amazon via satellite images, interactive maps and crowdsourcing. Its primary objective is to raise citizens' awareness about deforestation as well as increase accountability of public policies about the Colombian Amazon. The platform's open data satellite maps are based on information from the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies of Colombia and the maps are coupled with geo-located stories generated by journalists. For its implementation in Colombia, InfoAmazonia partnered with Dejusticia, El Espectador and the Amazon Conservation Team.
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 private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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Sources
- colombia.infoamazonia.org
