De Guarda
De Guarda is an initiative created in 2013 by the collective Minhas Cidades to monitor government practices in the public space. De Guarda works as a network of watchers, using social media and SMS to watch or guard a misbehavior or failure of action. "De Guarda na Friedenreich" and "De Guarda no Bondinho" were the two monitoring activities carried out by Minhas Cidades in Rio de Janeiro. Both initiatives had more than 1.000 citizens registered as watchers to enforce promises made by the local government to maintain the building of a municipal school (Friedenreich) and the remaining of the XVIII century tram of Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro (Bondinho).
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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