Indigenous Climate Alert
The smartphone application "Indigenous Climate Alert" was developed by the IPAM Institute as a prototype for the Veja Magazine innovation contest, which they won. Upon receiving the award, the app was developed and completed, and is currently available to be used on Android devices. The app aims to support the decentralization of climate hazard reporting in the Amazon region, particularly in areas where indigenous population are predominant. Given that the younger generations of indigenous people have access to smartphones and the internet, this app allows them to find out about climate threats, such as fires or violations of protected lands, and report them to the Institute, which uses this information to proceed with formal complaints.
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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