Citizen Consultation on the project: Recovery of Public Spaces, Urban Mobility and the Beaches of Panama Bay
The Citizen Consultation on the project "Recovery of Public Spaces, Urban Mobility and the Beaches of Panama Bay" was convened by the Mayor of Panama in late 2019 and during the first months of 2020, in order to provide citizens with information about a project that seeks to recover public areas in Panama Bay and allow them to provide their opinions on it and raise questions. This democratic innovation establishes two participatory schemes: on the one hand, a series of face-to-face informative meetings that would end with a meeting in which the project shall be voted by show of hands. On the other, an e-participation mechanism on the City Hall?s website, which allows citizens to submit questions and opinions regarding the project, which are published and answered publicly on the website. Although some meetings to discuss the project took place, the one in which the project was going to be voted on was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online participation mechanism, however, continues to operate.
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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