Hackathon for Road Safety
The Ministry of Transport and Communications in partnership with the National Engineering University launched the Hackathon for Road Safety in Lima in early March 2020. The two-day event took was meant to promote citizen participation and collaboration with the government in order to develop innovative solutions to increase road safety in Peru. Thirty-four teams and over 150 participants joined the hackathon. The first place went to The Riders, that developed a prototype device that allows to record all turns, accelerations and stops the car makes and stores it into a microSD card. The jury was composed by representatives from the Ministry, from the World Bank and private firms such as Google.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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