"Developing Latin America 2012" Hackathon
"Developing Latin America 2012" Hackathon" was an initiative promoted by the Quirós Tanzi Foundation and the Digital Government sector. For 36 continuous hours, the youths grouped in 15 teams competed against the clock towards the development of applications and digital solutions of high impact for the country that could be used by the citizens on computers, telephones or tablets. Each contestant group had to face the challenge of creating an application based on open data which was of impact in areas of social interest, such as: health, citizen security and agriculture in this case. In Costa Rica, a group of 60 young people participated. This was the first time that the Hackathon "Developing Latin America 2012" was held in the country.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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