Hackathon: Connecting youth + technology + water
The Hackathon: Connecting Youth + Technology + Water was organized by the Environment for Development Unit of the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, and financed by the U.S. Department of State. Young people between the ages of 15 and 25 who live in Costa Rica participated in the event. The objective of the Hackathon was for participants to collaboratively develop, in virtual sessions, an accountability application for the Administrative Associations of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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