Johannesburg, October 2010 THE CHILEAN INTEGRATED SOCIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (SIIS)

16 million inhabitants Rate of Unemployment: 8,8% Gini Coefficient: 0,53 (12 th worst worldwide) Poverty Rate: 15,1% (38,6% in 1990) Extreme Poverty Rate: 3,7% (13% in 1990) Principal component of the Social Protection System: Chile Solidario (since 2002) Unique National Identification Number for each citizen Some data on Chile…

 SIIS is a technologic platform and one of the principal management tools of the Chilean Social Protection System (Chile Solidario)  Registers, stores, exchanges and processes information about beneficiary families of government programs  Validates information and helps families apply for public services What is SIIS? Source: Public Services Web Services MASTER DATABASE Public Services Web Services Public Services Web Services Municipalities Social Protection Scorecard (FPS) Civil Register Service Validation of identification

 Identification information Official information from the Civil Register Service  Identification  Gender  Birth and death data  Address  Social information Chilean Social Protection Scorecard (FPS)  Unit of analysis: households  Multidimensional approach to vulnerability  Variables: identification, socio demographic variables, health, education, income and employment  Applied by Local Governments (Municipalities)  Surveyors are being certificated SIIS Inputs

 Administrative information  Databases from more than 20 institutions related with the Social Protection System. Micro data on delivery of subsidies and program participation:  Housing Programs  Health and Disability Programs  Micro Enterprise Support  Pensions  Other sources  Information on 2010 earthquake impact and other emergency situations SIIS Inputs

 Statistical Social Protection Scorecard module: information on FPS in different levels of aggregation (national, regional, local)  FPS certificates  Online services for public institutions  Individual queries: one FPS at each time  Web services: information available online to be used by each institution’s system  Batch queries: massive queries SIIS Outputs

 Simple and friendly design – easy to learn for users  100% designed on a Web platform – easy to access by an internet connection  Developed on Open Source Code – it does not require license payments  Requires authentication, by means of a unique password  Includes procedures for periodic backups and recovering of centralized information Some Characteristics Source:

 SIIS interfaces are optimized to facilitate navigation and improve the performance and the efficiency of the information systems  Development based on a modular architecture, so it requires a minimum cost for growing Some Characteristics

 Interoperability  Standardization and operational definitions: semantic integration  Legal issues on information  Trade-off between privacy and availability of data  Chile Solidario Law  Agreements between the Planning Ministry and a set of public services SIIS Key Elements

 The Master Data Base contains information on approximately 11 million people (3 million families)  It has more than 3,000 users in different territorial levels: Municipalities, Provinces, Regions and public services  Daily usage: More than 100,000 accesses to the different tools of the system Some statistics on SIIS

FOSIS Application System  The Chilean Solidarity and Social Investment Fund (FOSIS) has developed an application system for the access to its program information  Any citizen can apply  A computer assisted closed survey is applied to each applicant  The information is checked online at SIIS  Identification  Address  FPS scorecard  Previous participation in FOSIS and other public services programs are checked  Requirements for each FOSIS program are checked

FOSIS Application System  A score for each applicant is calculated  A list of pre-selected applicants is generated for each program  Information of those pre-selected is checked in field on the basis of a second, larger survey  A list of selected beneficiaries is generated

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