Chile

Open Your Municipality

City/State/Region: PeñalolénIndependencia
Begin – End: 2017 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente
Type of organization in charge: government civil society
Level: local

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

Abre Tu Municipio was born in 2017 as an initiative of Ciudadano Inteligente that, together with the Municipality of Peñalolén, implemented the first pilot of this project to open local governments. It is a mixture of digital and methodological tools that bring the work of municipalities closer to neighbors, promoting the collective construction of communities. It seeks to involve citizens in municipal projects and policies, allowing for more efficient participation, with better results for the people and a better use of resources by the municipal government. The process is supported by a web platform that centralizes information and collects citizen proposals, making visible the progress of the initiative for citizens, making them more aware of the possibilities of collaboration that exist in their municipality. The pilot had the participation of more than 200 residents of a neighborhood of the commune, and generated more than 40 proposals to address the challenge of redesigning a park sector. In 2019, the second pilot directed at the Municipality of Independencia is in the process of implementation.

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: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

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

https://abre.tumunicipio.org/#about