Neighborhoods in Action
Neighborhoods in Action is a digital platform driven by Ciudad Viva and Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, two civil society organizations, with the support of the undersecretary for Crime Prevention of the Ministry of Interior and Public Security of the Government of Chile, and aims to promote the participation of the community in prevention strategies through the identification of problems of coexistence and urban environment. This tool allows the neighbors of a certain neighborhood to report through the web various urban problems, to locate them on a map and to incorporate a photo. Among the qualified claims are the following: garbage, parking, luminaries, annoying noises, abandoned buildings, streets and avenues in poor condition. These complaints are addressed directly by the responsible authorities in order to intervene. Also, the website allows citizens to discuss neighborhood problems with other neighbors. This reported information is visible to all. Users, in addition to reporting to the municipality, may propose initiatives to improve the situations they report and seek support from other people.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- 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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