Hackathon against COVID-19
The Hackathon against COVID-19 was an initiative of the Laboratory for Research and Technological Innovation (LIIT) of the State Distance University (Universidad Estatal a Distancia) and the Citizen Group Proactive Crisis, with support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). In this event, citizens were invited to develop solutions to counteract the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic. The winning projects were Agricompra, a mobile App that enables the purchase of agricultural products to support small and medium-sized producers, and Cónfu, a digital platform that allows the tourism industry to generate immediate income by offering future contracts in the present.
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 a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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