Cité-ID part­ners with the LICER on reg­u­la­to­ry experimentation

Cité-ID is now part­ner­ing with the Lab­o­ra­toire d’innovation civique pour l’expérimentation régle­men­taire (LICER), a col­lec­tive project led by the Mai­son de l’innovation sociale (MIS). As part of Mon­tréal en com­mun, the LICER has three main objectives: 

1 — To iden­ti­fy issues requir­ing reg­u­la­to­ry exper­i­men­ta­tion and under­take tar­get­ed projects with part­ners from the mobil­i­ty and food secu­ri­ty clus­ters of Mon­tréal en com­mun.

2 — To map the peo­ple involved and their influ­ence on these issues, as well as explore the reg­u­la­to­ry design processes.

3 — To define the scope of LICER exper­i­ments with­in the frame­work of Mon­tréal en com­mun by: (1) assess­ing the poten­tial for reg­u­la­to­ry inno­va­tion; (2) defin­ing a method­ol­o­gy for exper­i­men­ta­tion, as well as indi­ca­tors for eval­u­at­ing and inte­grat­ing learn­ing; and (3) iden­ti­fy­ing issues that require con­crete reg­u­la­to­ry exper­i­men­ta­tion in tar­get­ed projects involv­ing part­ners from the two clusters.

Cité-ID will con­tribute to the achieve­ment of LICER’s objec­tives by doc­u­ment­ing the orga­ni­za­tion­al ecosys­tems of projects asso­ci­at­ed with the mobil­i­ty and food secu­ri­ty clus­ters. A first phase will employ qual­i­ta­tive research meth­ods (non-par­tic­i­pant obser­va­tion of work­shops and semi-direct­ed inter­views). In a sec­ond phase, Cité-ID will con­duct a social net­work analy­sis to mea­sure the qual­i­ty of inter-orga­ni­za­tion­al links with­in the ecosys­tem of each project. 

The first phase of Cité-ID’s man­date began in May 2020 and will con­clude in Decem­ber 2020 with the deliv­ery of a first research report. The sec­ond phase will begin in Jan­u­ary 2021. The time­line for 2021 has yet to be determined.