Decide for your Canton
"Decide for your Canton" is a digital platform enabled by La Nación/Data in the framework of the cantonal mayoral elections of 2016. It allows one to inquire about the judicial history of each of the candidates of Costa Rica?s 81 cantons, as well as to know the reasons why a group of them has been denounced, others condemned and why some have reconciled to avoid a sentence. In addition, the platform details those cases in which the Comptroller General of the Republic was forced to place sanctions on another group of applicants for faults committed in public. Accordingly, this information is contrasted with the version of events given by those charged. Finally, the application provides performance information in the 10 areas that most impact the life of the people of the chosen canton.
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
- no
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