Nina App
The Nina App is a smartphone application created by a citizen of Fortaleza as a mechanism to report sexual harassment in public transport. The app offers a complaint system both for the victim and for witnesses. The Municipality of Fortaleza subsequently collaborated with the developer to incorporate Nina into the city's official transportation app. Thus, when someone reports that they are suffering or witnessing harassment, the security cameras of the bus in which the person is located automatically record and send the images to the Civil Police to allow the identification of the attacker. The app also offers information about the premises of the nearest Brazilian Women's House so that the victim can formalize their report. In addition, the application helps to generate previously non-existent data about harassment situations in public transport, which is sent to the local government with the aim of impacting on prevention planning and intervention measures in the mid- and long-term.
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
- yes
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