Chile

AbreLatam 2015

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2015 – 2015
Name of organization in charge: Fundación AvinaCiudadano Inteligente
Type of organization in charge: civil society international organization
Level: national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: partial
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: yes

AbreLatam 2015 is a regional conference whose third edition took place in Santiago de Chile in 2015. This initiative seeks to bring together a whole series of individual stakeholders, members of civil society organizations, academics and public officials, with the purpose of promoting the open data agenda in Latin America. This is a highly dynamic meeting, during which participants take part in various work activities, such as discussion groups, talks, etc., with the ultimate purpose of bringing a series of proposals (legislative, programmatic, Innovations, etc.) that promote the advancement of open data policies to the Latin American governments. Among the topics discussed in the 2015 edition of AbreLatam, the following stand out: Access to Information, Transparency, Impact, Open Data Visualization, Sustainability, Citizen Participation, Open Data in Judicial Systems, Parliament, Public Policy, Open Data of Journalism, and Open Data in the private sector and Education.

Institutional design

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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: restricted
Type of participants: citizens civil society private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: no

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation

Sources

http://blog.abrelatam.org/