Latin America vs. COVID-19
Latin America vs. Covid19 was a 48-hour hackathon organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, that focused on finding innovative solutions to the most pressing issues derived from the Covid19 pandemic in Latin America. The hackathon was organized in tracks around the four the main challenges Latin-Americans have faced as a result of the pandemic: supporting the health systems, protecting the most vulnerable, preventing misinformation and empowering the informal economy. The hackathon ultimately is meant to connect the winning team with the partners that can provide the necessary resources to develop their ideas into functional solutions that can be implemented.
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
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