by Staff | May 9, 2022
Image source: https://www.medellin.gov.co/irj/portal/medellin?
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| Country |
Colombia |
| City |
Medellin |
| Name |
Protectiòn a moradores y actividades econòmicas y productivas |
| Date |
2016 |
| Description of the project |
The goal is to develop the principle of protection for residents through a public policy not only as an instrument of government, but in itself as a different form of Govern society and solve public problems. To govern by public policies, to involve the citizens in the characterization of the problems to be solved and the alternatives of solution. The project is considered the continuation of the scheduling and preparation for the public policy of protection for residents, economic and productive activities for the Municipality of Medellín, insofar as it develops the implementation of the pedagogical and communicational strategy for the design and formulation of the Public politics.
The policy was a petition of the “Collective of Protections to residents of the municipality of Medellin” in its rural and urban area as protagonists in the processes of public works, plans of transformation, renovation and integral improvement and other interventions through the macro projects, partial plans and tools established in the POT – Plan of Territorial Ordering – according to Agreement 048 of 2014 and framed within Municipal Development Plan “Medellin cuenta con vos” and conceived by Law 388 of 1997.
They are building the measures of this policy together with the citizens. |
| Urban Co-Governance |
Moderate |
| Enabling State |
Strong |
| Pooling |
Moderate |
| Experimentalism |
Moderate |
| Tech Justice |
Weak |
| Project Website |
https://www.medellin.gov.co/irj/portal/medellin?NavigationTarget=navurl://874ad1a7596d3d4968f24c4481664d7e |
| References, sources, contact person(s) |
Contact : pmoradores_med@unal.edu.co |
Medellin
by Staff | May 9, 2022
Image source: https://labcd.mx/
| Country |
Mexico |
| City |
Mexico City |
| Name |
Ciudad Propuesta CDMX (Proposed City CDMX) |
| Date |
2016 |
| Description of the project |
“Ciudad Propuesta is the research and action area of Laboratorio para la Ciudad focused on the study and strengthening of citizen participation from the neighborhoods, and reimagining how participatory budgets could work better to achieve it. We understand citizen participation as a mechanism to read and narrate the city, as well as to collectively revitalize their communities and territories.
It focuses its efforts on the city’s participatory programs, specifically in collaboration with the areas in charge of these in the city’s participatory budgets: the Neighborhood and Community Improvement and Participatory Budget programs run by the IECM. Based on a detailed and historical analysis that seeks to place the territory at the center, it aims to contribute to the understanding of the spatial deployment of these programs.” from https://labcd.mx/ciudades-posts/ciudad-propuesta/ |
| Urban Co-Governance |
Weak |
| Enabling State |
Strong |
| Pooling |
Moderate |
| Experimentalism |
Strong |
| Tech Justice |
Weak |
| Project Website |
https://labcd.mx/ciudades-posts/ciudad-propuesta/ |
| References, sources, contact person(s) |
Interview
Contact : laboratorio@labcd.mx |
Mexico City
by Staff | May 6, 2022
Image source: https://openstreetsproject.org/
| Country |
Canada |
| City |
Toronto |
| Name |
Open Streets sub project of 880 cities |
| Date |
2011 |
| Description of the project |
“The Open Streets Project is part advocacy project, part toolkit, part information database. It’s a one-stop shop for all things open streets related. Our team can offer aid and guidance to organizations and cities founding or growing their open streets programs. We believe that every municipality, no matter the size, can benefit from open streets.”
https://openstreetsproject.org/about-open-streets/ |
| Urban Co-Governance |
Moderate |
| Enabling State |
Weak |
| Pooling |
Strong |
| Experimentalism |
Moderate |
| Tech Justice |
Moderate |
| Project Website |
https://openstreetsproject.org/ |
| References, sources, contact person(s) |
Main information page and start-up of the Open Street project: Summit, A., & Agenda, O. (2018).Open Streets Project | The Movement For Open Streets. Retrieved from https://openstreetsproject.org/
Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetsProject
Open street project : info@openstreetsproject.org |
Toronto
by Staff | May 6, 2022
Image source: https://council.nyc.gov
| Country |
United States |
| City |
New York City |
| Name |
Participatory Budgeting |
| Date |
2011 |
| Description of the project |
“Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. The process began in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989. Today, there are more than 3,000 participatory budgeting processes around the world, most at the municipal level.
In 2011, four New York City Council Members – Brad Lander, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Eric Ulrich, and Jumaane D. Williams – launched a PB process to allow residents in their district to allocate part of their capital discretionary funds. Over the years, the process has grown to include a majority of Council Members, giving communities real decision-making over more than $35 million in taxpayer money on an annual basis.
In 2019, 33 Council Members participated in PBNYC, asking residents how to spend at least $35 million in capital funding. Following a series of phases to produce a community ballot, projects that receive the most votes during a nine-day Vote Week are adopted in the City’s fiscal year budget.”https://council.nyc.gov/pb/ |
| Urban Co-Governance |
Moderate |
| Enabling State |
Strong |
| Pooling |
Strong |
| Experimentalism |
Strong |
| Tech Justice |
Moderate |
| Project Website |
https://council.nyc.gov/pb/ |
| References, sources, contact person(s) |
Institutional website, and Interview to a representative of the Participatory Budgeting Project.
Contact : correspondence@council.nyc.gov |
New York
by Staff | May 6, 2022
Image source: https://www.solarunitedneighbors.org/
| Country |
United States |
| City |
Washington |
| Name |
Solar United Neighbors |
| Date |
2017 (its origins go back to 2007) |
| Description of the project |
SUN’s mission is to help make energy clean, local, equitable, affordable, and reliable for everyone, notably including those who think they can least afford it.
The way it works is to form co-ops; co-op participants then pool their bulk purchasing power to select one installer through an open, competitive bidding process. Co-op participants decide which proposal is best for the group as a whole. This process ensures that everyone receives a quality installation at the best price available. According to SUN’s website, “installing solar invests money in the local economy, and keeps more money in families’ pockets.”
In addition to their nine state-based programs, which help individual communities to solarize their homes through offering resources, technical support, and training, they work with each community to help them advocate for their rights as solar owners. However, SUN is interested in pushing its agenda nationwide, its mission and mandate is much broader and bigger than any single community or group of people.
They are fully versed in the most cutting edge technology pertaining to solar energy and well connected to highly skilled installers, developers and energy engineers and scientists. |
| Urban Co-Governance |
Moderate |
| Enabling State |
Weak |
| Pooling |
Strong |
| Experimentalism |
Strong |
| Tech Justice |
Strong |
| Project Website |
https://www.solarunitedneighbors.org/ |
| References, sources, contact person(s) |
Website: here.
Facebook: here.
Twitter: here.
Catalogue for Philanthropy: here.
Article in Solar Power World (October 2017): here.
For additional news articles about SUN see: here.
Contact : info@solarunitedneighbors.org |
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