Arturo Sánchez Jiménez
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, December 1, 2024, p. 8
With the disappearance of the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data, the new Anti-Corruption and Good Government Secretariat intends to promote an open data policy – information that the administration makes available to society for free use – that strengthen transparency and reduce the need to file access to information requests.
A practice that was abandoned by the last governments would be revived, since most federal agencies do not publish open data and a report from the National Transparency System (SNT) indicates that open data is the weakest component of institutional openness in Mexico .
In accordance with the General Transparency Law, open data is public digital data that is accessible online and can be used, reused and redistributed by any interested party.
The head of Anti-Corruption, Raquel Buenrostro, stated this week when appearing before Senate committees that Access to transparency will be preserved and strengthened. We are not satisfied with publishing the minimum required by law. We work to increasingly bring public information at our fingertips in open data
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He assured that with open data They will inhibit complaints requests, and by making all data transparent, by having an increasingly transparent government, we inhibit corruption
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Five years ago, the federal government boasted that Mexico was a leader in Latin America in open data. Today, the data.gob.mx portal – which concentrates open data from the administration and its dependencies – has been abandoned by many instances.
For example, the last record published by the Presidency of the Republic corresponds to 2018.
In November 2023 it was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation the National Open Data Policy, months before by the National Transparency System (SNT). The corresponding document states that The Open Government Metric shows that open data is the weakest component of institutional openness, since in this case the national average is 0.16, on a scale from 0 to 1. This indicates that the majority of the obligated subjects in the country does not publish open data
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Additionally, according to the ABC of Open Data published in December 2023 by the INAI, these do not equate to transparency, since while the first refers to a set of data that is available so that anyone can access, use and share them, the second It is a quality applicable to the information flows that constitute the tools through which we identify, know, understand and evaluate government action. This allows people to gain useful knowledge and influence government decisions.
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