A Quién Elegimos
?A Quién Elegimos? (lit. Whom are we electing) is a digital platform that provides information for citizens about candidates during elections. In addition, it provides information on elected officials once they assume office. The platform also allows direct consultations with the authorities, enabling a dialogue between citizens and politicians. Answers are published so that other citizens can consult them as well. The platform also facilitates citizen debates through an online forum.
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
- yes
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