Fundamedios
The Andean Foundation for the Observation and Study of Media (Fundamedios) is an initiative that was born in 2006 in order to establish a clear and direct dialogue between journalism and the citizenry, as well as to open discussions and lines of action in Ecuador and the region. Fundamentally, the purpose of this project is to support the media and journalists through its network for monitoring threats to freedom of expression and association, projects, training and workshops to reflect on and improve the profession. The initiative is pushed forward by an interdisciplinary group of professionals whose central goal is the defense of freedom of opinion and to this end, they produce articles and monitoring reports on various State branches. Likewise, the platform has a tool so that citizens in general can make complaints related to violations of freedom of expression in their own or third parties' cases.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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