Ecuador

Quito Open Government

City/State/Region: Quito
Begin – End: 2014 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: partial
Output: -
Policy Outcome: -

The Quito Open Government was first institutionalized with ordinances 101, 102 and 184 in 2014. As a member of the Open Government Partnership, the municipal government of the metropolitan district of Quito developed a strategy to set up an open government seeking to enact the principles of transparency, collaboration and participation in their administration. The first step was setting up a platform to facilitate citizens' access to information like management reports, local budgets and action plans. Additionally, in order to encourage citizen participation, the administration made a call for members of the civil society, the academia and the private sector to partake in the constitution of a consultative council, which works together with the municipal authorities to evaluate the action plan for open government and support its implementation. A first action plan for the Quito Open Government was released in 2019, it included a review the measures adopted by the administration thus far and a set of compromises for the future with guidelines for their execution.

Institutional design

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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: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: open
Type of participants: citizens civil society private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation

Sources

http://gobiernoabierto.quito.gob.ec/