hackMApp
HackMApp was organized by the Corporación Red Infrodesarrollo, the purpose of a hackathon is to bring together interdisciplinary teams who can profit from the diverse backgrounds of its members to create solutions to a challenge with a broader scope. The event invited citizens to develop an opensourced prototype for an app that could be used to crowdsource and map localized data about communities and neighborhoods in Ecuador. The app should be used to provide civil society collectives and organisations a platform to retrieve information about the individual needs, challenges, proposals and collective history of diverse territories. On the weekend of the 11th/12th of July in 2015, seven teams comprised of proffessionals, students, artistis and academics, worked on individual projects; the winning project was set to be developed on its totality until september 2015. This hackathon seeked to develop a mechanism that could serve for local knowledge to be used in the decision making and policy process. This was an effort supported by the National Communications Corporation (CNT), the International Center for Advanced Communication Studies in Latin America (CIESPAL), the Polytechnical University, ThoughtWorks Ecuador and Media Lab Quito, all of whom are interested in supporting the linkage between digital tools and social welfare.
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
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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