Embraced App
"Embraced" (port. Brazos Dados) is a smartphone application that seeks to improve the safety of women in public spaces. The app offers a security mechanism that is activated through the cell phone of the person who feels at risk, and that when alerted, sends instant messages that include their geolocation to 5 selected contacts. The app also allows messages to be sent after a certain period of time. The final objective of its developers, the Gender and Number Institute, is also to begin to generate a mapping and produce data about where incidents occur and in which areas women suffer the most insecurity, which can be used as input to pressure public authorities to direct specific resources to improve security in these areas.
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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