Hello? Please, Colombia?
Hello? Please, Colombia? is a participatory innovation promoted by a group of six young Colombians. This platform is a transmedia space for debate among citizens and candidates or public officials and aims to encourage discussions on local realities that affect the civil society. The initiative emerged in the framework of the 2018 presidential elections, connecting presidential and vice presidential candidates with randomly selected citizens. After the election of the new president, this space of participation launched a new campaign, which seeks to connect citizens with ministers. The methodology through which this democratic innovation is carried out consists of a 10-minute telephone conversation between a political leader and a citizen. The call is recorded and shared on an online platform and social networks.
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
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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