Colombia

Digital Brigade

The Digital Brigade began to arise in 2010 and today is made up of citizens and entities from a variety of different backgrounds, who seek to take advantage of their digital skills to contribute to the social and humanitarian situation of the country. Although the organizations and individuals involved come from civil society, the Brigade is oriented by the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications and therefore its actions are aimed at achieving the objectives of the technological Digital Live Plan of the Government of Colombia for the period 2010- 2018. The Digital Brigade is organized and articulated into thematic squadrons and territorial nodes. The squadrons are related to issues such as overcoming extreme poverty, health, inclusion of women, and the environment, among others. Each squadron has an internal organization and it is sought that all the territorial nodes have leaders of all the squadrons that are articulated in a great thematic network, which in turn is articulated to the Brigade.

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

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