Uruguay

Mapping of Citizen Innovation to Improve the City

City/State/Region: Montevideo
Begin – End: 2016 – 2016
Name of organization in charge: Vivero de Iniciativas CiudadanasIntendencia de MontevideoSecretaría General Iberoamericana
Type of organization in charge: government civil society
Level: local

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: -
Policy Outcome: -

The Mapping of Citizen Innovation Initiatives to Improve the City of Montevideo was born out of the "Nursery of Citizen Initiatives" project, organized jointly with the City Hall. The Nursery is an open and collaborative online platform that aims to promote citizen initiatives that improve the coexistence and development of cities. The concrete project consists in the opening of collective mapping spaces, that is to say, in the identification and description of different citizen initiatives categorized by themes in an open map for Montevideo. This is done within the framework of workshops, from which it is sought to connect initiatives, discuss them and constitute an input for the Municipality, and that it may incorporate and promote certain initiatives, also within the framework of the Montevideo 2030 project, a project for Think Montevideo towards the future. The CIVICS project also emerged from The Nursery, an online platform in which cases of initiatives can be registered in several cities.

Institutional design

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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: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: single
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation

Sources

http://www.civics.cc