Federal Ideathon Innovative Cities in times of Covid-19
The Federal Ideathon Innovative Cities in times of Covid-19 is an initiative of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Bahía Blanca's City Hall, Mendoza's City Hall and Rosario's City Hall, with the support of the civil society organization We Hack it Together (Span. Lo Hackeamos Entre Todos) which contributed its experience and methodology in the organization of hackathons. The ideathon is a setting in which citizens, representatives of civil society organizations and the private sector meet, by videoconference, to formulate solutions aimed at innovating local public management during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposals shall have an open government approach and be aimed at addressing the following challenges: resilience and economic recovery, climate change and environmental agenda during the pandemic, open data and innovation in crisis management.
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 civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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