Brake the Curve
Brake the Curve is a platform, a transnational citizen initiative available in 14 Latin American countries, serves to combat the effects of the covid19 pandemic. The platform is a tool that allows users to share initiatives that can become networks of cooperation in which people can share essential services and resources with their fellow citizens. Thanks to the interactive map feature, the users can create decentralized networks of cooperation sin they can search for initiatives near them. The services and resources shared through the platform are multiple, from food and medicine to volunteering in medical and educational fields. Since its launch in march 2020, the platform has registered more than a thousand reports of mutual support in Peru.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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