Evolution of Mexicos Fiscal Transparency Portal Why Transparency

Evolution of Mexico’s Fiscal Transparency Portal

Why? Transparency + Participation Accountability Efficiency Effectiveness

What if…. ? Information is there but spread out? What if information is accessible but not understandable? What if information is not creating engagement? Transparency ?

Then Now Cooperation with civil society organizations Little additional information Manually updated Fail fast Additional information on diverse matters Connected Design managed by nonspecialists Design managed by specialists Few communication channels Communication channels

Listen! And keep moving 1. Use statistics 2. Access to Information requests 3. Civil Society Organizations, formal and informal meetings; 4. Underused information 5. Participation in hackathons, data expedition and other similar events.

Balance Data + open formats

Balance Simple language

Balance Visualizations

Results 994% in visitors But…

Challenges Naïve to assume that technology would completely reduce the information asymmetries between government and general public, and generate interest.

What if…? We have the above but there are no channels to act on upon it? + Transparency Participation Accountability Efficiency Effectiveness

Encourage and respond Create channels

Encourage and respond Create channels

Encourage and respond Invite

Encourage and respond Respond

Encourage and respond Respond

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