Elige tu candidato (?Choose your Candidate?)
Elige tu candidato (lit. Choose your candidate) is an electronic platform that allowed citizens to access information and use personalized channels of communication on candidates for the National Assembly of Venezuela during the parliamentary elections of 2015. The platform has sections for visualizing trajectories, proposals, news and a link to directly contact each candidate and send proposals or suggestions for the candidacy. Through an interactive map, regional representations can be explored and a survey seeks to reflect the preferences of users and voters regarding the characteristics and values most important for a parliamentary candidacy.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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