Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to support the Participatory Budget of Jarabacoa
The pilot program for participatory budgeting through SMS text messages, named "Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support the Participatory Budget of Jarabacoa", aims to increase the participation of civil society and achieve greater government transparency and accountability. In the pilot a total of 848 cell phone numbers were collected: by delegates of participatory budgeting, through community leaders and meetings, and through door-to-door visits. First, project participants were invited via a text to participate in a Community Assembly, thus increasing participation in the budgeting process. In a second stage, participants had to vote for one of the two budget options. The most voted option was allocated 25% of the budget in the City Council?s session.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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