Citizen Datathon
Citizen Datathon is an initiative of Grupo Faro that aims to encourage citizen participation in activities related to the collection of data on different community issues and problems. During the Datathons, citizens can participate in data collection, either electronically through online forms or through face-to-face surveys. With the data collected and generated by citizens, social problems are identified to improve decision making in the implementation of public programs. To date, several Datathons have been held in the cities of: Quito, Portoviejo, Loja, Tena, Ambato and Latacunga; where different topics such as urban mobility, security and public spaces were addressed.
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
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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