Brazil

Hack My City

City/State/Region: Sao Paulo - SP
Begin – End: 2016 – 2016
Name of organization in charge: CocriatórioFundação BRAVA
Type of organization in charge: civil society private stakeholders
Level: local

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: partial
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: unknown

The Hackathon "Hack Meu Município" (lit. Hack My City) was a marathon of design thinking, prototyping and development organized by Cocriatório in collaboration with Fundação BRAVA, responsible for the Meu Municipio portal that makes available open data municipal on management throughout Brazi, so that citizens can monitor their local governments. The goal of the Hackathon was to develop further tools that facilitate the approach of citizens to this data. During two days, public officials, students and interested citizens met to develop IT solutions to this challenge. As a result, 6 smartphone applications were prototyped, of which 2 were chosen for development. The first was the "Olio" App where citizens could assume the role of municipal manager and discover what powers and resources they would have at their disposal and where they could act or intervene. The second was the App "Did you know?", with which citizens could test their knowledge about how the public resources of their city are used. Both apps had a total of 80,000 hits after being launched.

Institutional design

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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: restricted
Type of participants: citizens private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields no decision
Co-Governance: no

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation