Hackathon of the National Emergency System
The National Emergency System of Uruguay (SINAE, by its Spanish acronym) organized a hackathon in 2019, with the purpose of encouraging citizens to design innovative solutions to solve problems related to Integrated Disaster Risk Management in Uruguay (e.g. how to develop a preventive culture, how to register and distribute information in the event of an environmental catastrophe, how to design early warning systems, how to handle the transmission of knowledge within SINAE, etc.). The hackathon took place in Montevideo, although citizens from all over the country were invited to participate, as long as they were over 18 years old and had no connection with SINAE staff and/or the event's juries and mentors. The maximum number of allowed participants was 100.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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