Kitum
Kitum is an online platform created during the floods that occurred in Colombia and Peru in 2017. The original idea was developed during the III Ibero-American Laboratory for Citizen Innovation, which was held in Colombia with the organization of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (Segib), and his name means "I am here for you" in the Wounaan language of the indigenous people of Chocó. This platform has several tools that made it possible to improve the response to the crisis: a monitoring map where different events can be recorded during the emergency; a dissemination instructions to corroborate the information that is circulated through the media, and an information system that communicates the residents and those affected with rescue teams. The tool is based on a project originated in Kenya called Ushahidi, and was already used in other cases in Latin America: during the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile in 2010, the floods in Colombia in 2011, or the earthquake in Ecuador in 2016.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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