Ojo al Voto
Ojo al Voto (lit. Eye on the Vote) is a digital platform for citizen initiative, designed to inform and observe the political and electoral processes in Costa Rica. In the first stage, during the presidential elections of 2014, Ojo al Voto stood out as an independent platform of analytical and contextualized content on the electoral process, placing emphasis on the candidates for different positions of popular election whilst studying their past, current surroundings, and political positions. Subsequently, Ojo al Voto developed a second stage aimed at "keeping an eye" on the First Power of the Republic: the Legislative Assembly. In this new stage, the initiative aims to be a citizen watch on legislative developments in order to open new spaces so that Costa Rican citizens can learn about the main discussion processes, events and characteristics of the work carried out in the Congress, through a website where any user can download the data, information and analysis.
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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