Citizen CoLaboratory
The Citizen Collaboratory is an organized solution to the negative consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown measures on ecuadorian sectors of society that cannot secure a livelihood. Based on the values of solidarity, social inclusion, transparency and grassroots organizing, the framework for the initiative was developed by the Fundación San Francisco Global with support of the United Nations Development Program. The implementation of the initiative is carried out by volunteers who register online to offer to help other citizens and communities listed on the website of the Collaboratory. Participants are, for example, recyclers, single pregnant women, rural communities, and families with sick members, who become a chance to express how and where they have certain needs, and then volunteers can collaborate to respond to them.The main idea behind this project is sharing, not only resources but also information. Through the crowdsourcing of contributions to the platform, the Citizen Collaboratory seeks to be a space for redistribution, exchange and collective learning.
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
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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