Civic Hack Nights
The Civic Hack Nights are citizen participation events that are organized fortnightly. The aim of these spaces is to develop and implement ideas that ?with the use of technology- can respond to local and national problems. Specific topics like migration, citizen mobility, or fake news are often discussed. The methodology of this innovation consists in a first welcome and socialization phase; followed by a second phase in which news about civic technology and open government are shared; the third phase involves a session of questions and answers; and during the fourth phase mini-hackathons are implemented. In this last phase, citizens gather in working or study groups to design and develop a project.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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