Students occupy the administrative offices of the Rio de Janeiro Rural Federal University, UFRRJ in Seropedica, Brazil, 2013. AP Photo/Felipe Dana
The updatepolitics.cc platform was launched in May this year. It is a tool to explore the ecosystem of political innovation in Latin America and learn about each of the more than 700 initiatives mapped by Update in 20 Latin American countries.
The reason for the mapping was the search for practices aiming at reducing the gap between society and government, with a focus on their strategies and the tools they use. The observation of the initiatives and actors that have been mapped highlights some of the particularities of this ecosystem, such as the regional circumstances that drive them, the characteristics of their formation and the trends they outline.
