Compromisómetro
The Compromisómetro (lit. Commitment-meter) is a digital platform on which a special team follows the commitments made in Ecuador?s 2017 presidential campaign with regards to the environment and the public, and evaluates how engaged the candidates are to completing those goals. The platform has a public access scoring system, and the admins monitor the media to update the online database, which then shows how candidates move in real time across the commitment chart. The main 'commitments' followed by the platform are: stopping the extractivist exploitation, starting by the Yasuní area; Guaranteeing the true political participation of society through the implementation of Direct Democracy mechanisms; and Stopping the criminalization of environmental activists. In total, 7 issues are open to commitment and 8 candidates are monitored.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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