Multidisciplinary Scientific Committee
In the face of the public health emergency unleashed by the Covid-19 epidemic in 2020, a group of medical doctors and scientists autonomously formed this Committee in order to provide recommendations and information to both the general public and the National Government. In reaction to the lack of government action at the beginning of the epidemic, the citizens who voluntarily participate in this Committee decided to offer their knowledge and expertise to slow down the speed of contagion of the virus and prevent consequences on the health of the population. The members of the Committee issue press releases with recommendations based on scientific evidence and offer direct attention to citizens with symptoms or doubts regarding the pandemic.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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