#Observacióne2016
As part of the international electoral hackathon #DevCa2016running from May 5 ? 31, 2016, the website #Observacióne2016 was launched as one of the competing submissions for the Dominican chapter of the competition. #DevCa (Developing Caribbean) is an international hackathon with the aim of exploring the possibilities of open data in the quest for solving diverse 'real-world' problems. #Observacióne2016 is an interactive tool inviting citizens to denounce any irregularities that they observe during the May 15, 2016 Dominican Republic Elections, where a new president, congress and municipal representatives are to be elected. Citizens could submit their complaint via a form on the website or by calling a designated phone number. Denunciations can range from party proselytism, bribery, electoral fraud to active disturbances of the electoral process such as stealing ballot boxes, blocking access to voting stations or distributing alcohol to citizens prior to voting. As of May 23, 2016, 502 reports had been submitted, with 181 being verified as valid and 90 rejected; 231 were still in the process of verification. The NGO Participación Ciudadana (lit. Citizen Participation) was in charge of reviewing the submissions, assessing and following up on the incidents.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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