Ecuador Checks
Ecuador Checks is a digital platform dedicated mainly to the verification of electoral speeches. This initiative analyzes candidates' statements during electoral campaigns and assesses whether they are true, lack contextualization, are unsustainable, or if are false. The initiative divides the analysis into two main fields: economy and politics. In turn, the initiative has several sections which stand out, like the 'Wordometer', 'Meet Your Candidate', 'Government Plans' and the 'Voice of the Academy'. Those who promote the initiative view it as a collaborative experience between civil society, academia and journalism, while its work concentrates the activities of teachers and analysts of at least 10 organizations, including universities, public policy observatories and other think tanks. They also use fact checking tools, within the trends that emerge in digital environments in order to confront data. Ecuador Check is also registered in a movement of fact checkers with at least 100 active global ventures.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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