Zero Harassment
The application for smartphones "Zero Harassment" (port. Assédio Zero) emerged as a replica of the Espaço Livre ("Free Space") experience, a mapping to identify LGBT + friendly places. In this app, the developers aspire to encourage women to register the places, public or private, where they have suffered sexual harassment or physical or verbal violence. Thus, the app aims to generate a kind of "heat map" of the most dangerous areas for women in each city. The app does not require registration and reports are completely anonymous, and can be about current or past situations. In the same way, all users can see the map and the reported events. The final objective is to generate a geographical recognition of the most insecure areas for women in order to exert pressure on politics, so that it takes specific measures to combat this situation.
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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