Hackathon for the Amazon
The Hackathon for the Amazon is an initiative that seeks to promote participation and innovation around the problems and potentialities of the Amazon by generating innovative products that contribute to environmental management and the citizens awareness through the use of open data from the State's digital portals. Two editions of the Hackathon for the Amazon have been held, one in 2017 and the other in 2019. The topics covered were sustainable infrastructure in the Amazon, biodiversity and indigenous communities, and illegal deforestation. Among the winning projects was the app "Libre te quiero" (I love you free), which seeks to protect biodiversity through a detector and directory of threatened species, accompanied by a system for reporting traffic in real time.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
Means
|
Ends
|
