InfoÚtil 2.0
InfoÚtil is a web portal and a mobile application allowing users to inquire on databases as well as rate the quality of these databases. In general, it contains socially useful information in order to make informed decisions about the acquisition of goods and services. The portal is fed with public databases containing information on reference prices of food products in supermarkets, the cost of tuition and fees, doctors authorized to practice in the country, establishments with sanitary permits, the list of legally registered unions or the name of companies fined for labor violations.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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