Vigilante Project
The Vigilante Project was an application developed by the company EvoBras in response to the violence and police brutality in Brazil. This app for smartphones allowed users to register police abuses and breaches of duties by police officers and officials, attaching evidence in photos, audios or videos as well as geolocation. The app also informed users of their rights in different situations. A later stage of development aspired to develop an institutional connection with the Ombudsman's offices so that complaints are automatically received and processed by them and thus guarantee that those responsible were investigated within the police force. A crowdfunding campaign was started for this, which however did not reach the objectives, so the development of the app was discontinued.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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