HACKCOVID19
Hackcovid19 was a 72-hour online hackathon organized by the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics, focused on finding innovative solutions to the problems caused by the covid-19 pandemic. The hackathon made the participants work virtually in teams, with the help of mentors and experts, to try to come up with technological solutions for the challenges the pandemic has brought. The challenges this hackathon tackled were public health information sharing, epidemiology and science of disease, keeping our health workers safe and second order societal impacts. The winner teams were chosen on April 1st, 2020.
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
- no
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