Street Tweet
Street Tweet is a mechanism for citizen participation set forth by the collective #LoxaEsMás with the purpose of amplifying the voices and concerns of the population in the city of Loja. The idea highlights the importance of taking social involvement beyond social networks to collective spaces. Unlike other forms of virtual participation, in which citizens interact online, this campaign is made visible to large sectors of society, inviting even those with limited internet access to reflection. The Street Tweet mechanism has only been implemented once in the city of Loja. In 2012, the question "How do you imagine Loxa in 140 characters?" was posed on a platform similar to twitter. Interested citizens were able to participate with their responses and also vote for "tweets" from others, the 45 most popular contributions were printed and pasted on various city walls. In addition, a collection of the contributions was delivered by #LoxaEsMas to the City Municipality, however this action was perceived as a rather symbolic act for the administration.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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