ViZiN
ViZiN is a smartphone app developed by a group of young developers with the aspiration to provide a digital tool that fulfills similar functions to the communal and neighborhood security meetings. Through this digital channel, the neighbors of a zone or a community can communicate with each other to alert in real time of potential situations of insecurity: alerts of theft, drug use, vandalism or emergency. In this way, the app aims to generate a network of contact between neighbors specifically aimed at making everyday life safer. Launched in 2016, the app was still in development and incorporating new features to include photographs, linking complaints with public security cameras, and setting relevant alert filters as well as personal preferences.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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