Open government champions in Mexico face significant challenges at the federal and state levels. The federal open government partnership process stalled after the espionage carried out by the previous administration and only recently got back on track. At the same time, open government processes in many states have stalled (see short summary of recent subnational…
March 22, 2018 Jorge Florez, Research Manager – Global Integrity Katherine Wikrent, Data Scientist – Open Contracting Partnership Carey Kluttz, Senior Program Manager – Open Contracting Partnership Chelsey Lepage, Program Manager – Reboot New York City is at the forefront of open data at the city level in the US. The city has an open…
By Jorge Florez, Project Manager & Balam Barcelo, Investigador del IMCO* – Versión en Inglés acá, May 13, 2016 Estamos encantados de haber pasado dos semanas compartiendo con socios locales en México para apoyar sus esfuerzos por diseñar e implementar compromisos para seguir el gobierno; compromisos para facilitar que los ciudadanos puedan entender cómo…
By Jorge Florez, Project Manager & Balam Barcelo, Researcher at IMCO* – Spanish Version here, May 13, 2016 We are thrilled to have spent two weeks in Mexico visiting local partners to support their efforts to design and implement commitments to follow the money – or to enable citizens to see how public resources…
By Jorge Florez — November 23, 2015. Can citizens find and make use of the data they need to track the use of their taxes – to follow the money – in relation to particular issues? On October 24th and 25th, we gathered 10 teams of Mexican citizens interested in transparency and open government –…
By Jorge Florez — October 8, 2015. How do citizens use budget information to address particular problems they deem important? For us this is a key question for the fiscal transparency movement and one which, with some interesting exceptions (see here, here and here), has not received the attention it deserves. If citizens are…