BICIudad Movement
The BICIudad Movement is a citizen-led initiative that seeks to recover public spaces and give an answer to the problems of insecurity, urban mobility and pollution in the capital, Guatemala City. With the aim of influencing public policy and promoting the use of bicycles as a means of transportation, this group of citizens drafted a petition and collected online signatures. The petition asked the Mayor of the Municipality to regulate the installation of bicycle parking, in order to modify the regulation of their distribution at home and to prioritize the use of the bicycle in their urban mobility projects. To participate, citizens had to fill out a form with their name, their identification number (or passport), their email, their year of birth, the municipality and the area where they live, study and/or work. In addition, they had to answer four questions about their use of the bicycle, the number of times they used it, the groups with which it was mobilized, and whether it would make more frequent use of the bicycle if there were more cycle paths. Unfortunately, because of the lack of signatures, BICIudad never gave the petition to the Municipality.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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