National Board for Dialogue on Community Media
The National Board for Dialogue on Community Media was a meeting point between various civil society organizations and indigenous leaders, which resulted in the Community Media Bill. The dialogue process, which led to the drafting of this bill, lasted two and a half years. Until early 2020, this initiative had not yet been approved by Congress, and several community radios (which are mostly indigenous) are persecuted and criminalized. The purpose of this law is to recognize the alternative community radio stations of the Mayan, Xinka, Garífuna and Ladino peoples, the democratization of access to frequencies - which are the means to exercise freedom of expression and the right to communicate, and not means for commercial purposes. If approved, the law would grant 30% of the radio spectrum to these community radio stations.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
Means
|
Ends
|
