City Monday (CDMX)
City Monday is a citizen initiative that seeks to strengthen democracy by facilitating conversation among citizens, while connecting them with decision makers. The initiative was founded in Medellín in 2013. In Mexico, the initiative was implemented in November 2016 by the organization Ciudad Verde, which has promoted issues related to sustainability, urban mobility, environment and gentrification, among others. City Monday promotes weekly conversations to highlight citywide issues and concerns, as well as monitor decisions made by city officials. This dialogue allows citizens to discuss the challenges facing city projects and drive informed debate. These regular meetings also foster a community network that often results in collaborative action plans to pursue effective collective action.
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 no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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