Mapathon for Guajira
The Mapathon for Guajira is an initiative that began in 2016 that seeks, collaboratively among citizens, civil society organizations, international organizations and the Government, to generate maps and geographic data of the most vulnerable areas of the region. Since the Guajira humanitarian crisis is mainly due to water shortages, the Mapathon focuses on the mapping of this resource to make the data available to the regional communities, humanitarian organizations and the Government to understand the drought and famine problem and contribute to the decision-making process and solution. In order to develop this activity, another activity was first carried out to teach the participants to map and to use the technological tools to do so, and then to continue the field mapping in Guajira using these tools in a collaborative way thereby using the geographic knowledge of the inhabitants of the region for the collection and processing of information.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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