Brake the Curve Ecuador
Amidst the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, Brake the Curve was started by the local government of Aragón (Spain) as a platform for volunteers and activists, as well as healthcare workers and members of the private sector and civil society, to connect and coordinate joint efforts to fight the spread of the panddemic. It quickly grew to be an international project, present in 11 countries across the iberoamerican region. Stop the Curve Ecuador consists of a website where every citizen can list the details and contact information of local or national initiatives aimed at preventing the further escalation of contagion rates, or at helping communities bear the socioeconomic burden of the crisis. Some examples include sources for factchecked information, initiatives for civic resilience, donation banks for rural areas in need of food and health equipment, projects to support informal workers like recyclers and market vendors, and a platform within local governments' websites for the registry of vulnerable citizens. The initiatives listed on Stop the Curve should ideally be curated by a group of volunteers who communicate via a Telegram group (of currently 55 members) and the final selection is posted on an interactive map in the main website.
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 civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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