Sparrow App
The Pardal application (lit. Sparrow) was developed by the National Electoral Court of Brazil during the 2018 elections. The goal of the app is to enable citizens to collaborate quickly and effectively with the control of the operation of the elections. The app allows users to send reports and complaints of improper electoral practices or to denounce non-compliance by employees of the Electoral Justice, attaching evidence in the form of photographs, videos, audio and geolocation. This information is sent directly to the Public Ministry so that it can prosecute effectively those acts that constitute crimes according to the evidence presented.
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
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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