DemoLab
DemoLab is a laboratory for innovation and citizen participation created within the scope of the Bogotá City Council in 2020. During the Bogotá How are we Doing surveys in 2019 (span. Bogotá Cómo Vamos), participants identified the Council, the local legislative body, as the least participatory institution in the city ??government. This motivated the implementation of a laboratory format within this local government branch. The main function of the laboratory is to bring together agents from civil society and other sectors to develop a toolbox to help incorporate participation and gender equality in the Council. So far, DemoLab has been responsible for the design of the Bogotá Citizen Assembly and for transferring the Local Development Plan to virtual meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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