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Practices in Bogotá
Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB): inclusive recycling modelSecond-level organization that brings together cooperatives of traditional waste pickers in Bogotá. The ARB organizes informal recyclers so they can operate as providers of the public waste recovery service, defending their legal recognition, their remuneration for recovered material and their formal inclusion in the circular economy chain. It is a Latin American benchmark for inclusive recycling and got the Constitutional Court to order the District to integrate waste pickers into waste management contracting; in 2013 a public payment system for the recovery activity was established.Basura Cero program (Bogotá Humana)Public policy for integrated waste management implemented by the Bogotá mayor's office (Gustavo Petro administration) within the Bogotá Humana development plan starting in December 2012. It sought a cultural shift in the perception of waste by articulating separation at the source, extended producer responsibility, reduced landfill disposal and, above all, the inclusion of informal waste pickers as providers of the waste recovery service. It leveraged the existing informal infrastructure and aimed to divert around 20% of waste from the landfill. It lost continuity after the change of administration (2016), with a heavily questioned recycling model.QueremosDatos.coPublic platform for freedom of information (FOIA) requests built on mySociety's free software Alaveteli and operated since 2016-2017 by Datasketch with mySociety and journalists from Bogotá. Any citizen can request information from the State; the team processes and publishes the response. Active in 2026, with ~2,876 requests to more than 6,400 public bodies, under the 2014 Transparency Law.DemoLab / deliberative citizen assemblies (Extituto de Política Abierta)DemoLab is the public innovation and open government lab of the Bogotá City Council, created in 2020 by the Council with allies (Fundación Corona, Extituto de Política Abierta, Ideemos, FESCOL, NIMD, Fundación Avina, Diseño Público). First public innovation lab within a representative body in Colombia. It promoted the first Itinerant Citizen Assembly (2020, recognized by the OECD in 2021) and 'Concejo a la Casa'. In 2024 the #SumemosVoces Deliberative Assembly gathered 60 citizens selected by lot (25 Sep 2024) out of 51,163 invited, who deliberated from 18 to 21 October 2024.Rutas del ConflictoDigital-native data journalism outlet that documents the Colombian armed conflict. Since 2014 it has built its own georeferenced database with close to 730 massacres that occurred between 1982 and 2012, systematizing armed actor, date, context and victims' names from the versión libre testimonies of the Justice and Peace process. It is published as an interactive map, timeline, mobile app, reporting and transmedia products.DatasketchColombian data and social technology organization (founded 2015, Bogotá) that democratizes access to data science for journalists, activists, civil society and the public sector. It covers the entire data cycle: it builds data where none exists, requests access to public information, and creates visualizations without needing to code. Projects: analysis of 6.2 million public contracts, 'Stalker de la contratación', and data governance with Fundación Karisma.