Hackathon "Public financial management and technology in Costa Rica"
The hackathon "Public Financial Management and Technology in Costa Rica" is an initiative of the Ministry of Finance of Costa Rica and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which seeks to design innovative digital solutions to centralize and optimize the system to pay social programs in Costa Rica, strengthening its transparency and accountability. In the hackathon participate citizens with knowledge in technology and programming. The winning team is awarded a trip to Washington D.C., where it takes part in an annual meeting of the IMF and presents its proposal for further consideration.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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