Mapping sources of pollution in Uruguay River
The Mapping the Sources of Pollution in the Uruguay River is an initiative of Datos Concepción and the Open Knowledge Foundation, with support of local government representatives, who are members of the Uruguay River Waterway Committee. The purpose of the initiative was to map the sources of pollution in the Uruguay River in order to better understand the state of the river's waters and thus generate a diagnosis of the problem. The meeting, which lasted about seven hours, was attended by citizens with diverse interests and profiles, who provided the necessary information to carry out the mapping. The participants geolocated sources of pollution from industrial plants, tourist initiatives (hot springs), sewers, agricultural activities, wetlands and residential areas. The results of the mapping are available online.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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