Evolution of Mexico’s Fiscal Transparency Portal
+ Transparency Participation Accountability Efficiency Effectiveness Why? Transparency + Participation Accountability Efficiency Effectiveness
? Transparency What if….? Information is there but spread out? What if information is accessible but not understandable? What if information is not creating engagement? ? Transparency
Fail fast Then Now Cooperation with civil society organizations Little additional information Manually updated Design managed by non-specialists Few communication channels Cooperation with civil society Additional information on diverse matters Connected Design managed by specialists Communication channels Fail fast
Listen! And keep moving Use statistics Access to Information requests Civil Society Organizations, formal and informal meetings; Underused information 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.
We have the above but there are no channels to act on upon it? 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