Break Zika App
The application Break Zika was developed by Colab.re in collaboration with numerous municipal prefectures and some civil society organizations, with the aim of monitoring and combating the spread of the Aedes mosquito in Brazil and generating control information about the spread of Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya. In addition to disseminating prevention information, the app offered a quick symptom test to identify the possibility of being infected and reported on control health centers. But the central function of the app is the possibility for any user to upload information about possible focus spots of the mosquito, sending photos and geolocation, or to report the number of infected people in their family or social circles. Thus, the app generated a collaborative map that was permanently updated so that other users in the same cities could collaborate with the control of the mosquitoes concentration points or know the levels of contagion in their city. In addition, the prefectures and local authorities received this information directly, facilitating their prevention action or their health intervention.
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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