Colaborative Sorocaba
The "Colaborative Sorocaba" contest was organized by the Instituto Cidade Democratica in collaboration with the Sorocaba Secretary of Education (SEDU), the Brazil Foundation and with support from IBM. Open calls were launched to transform the city of Sorocaba according to the preferences and initiatives of the community. The call was directed especially to the teenager and youth population in the town. Through 5 stages, citizens could: 1) bring inspiration from good practices in other places, 2) make concrete proposals for the locality, 3) vote for the proposals preferred by the participants, 4) unify similar proposals among themselves?, and 5) announce the final winners of the contest.
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 a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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