Mudamos App
Mudamos App (lit. We change) is a mobile application developed by the Institute of Technology and Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio) for proposing bills through popular initiative. The purpose of the application is to assist the process of taking citizens' signatures, usually done by paper, using blockchain technology, where the signatures are univocal and auditable. The App has had more than 100.000 downloads, in partnership with the Municipality of João Pessoa (CMJP), in Paraíba, and with financial contribution from Google.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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