1. Public Participation in the Era of Digitalization, IT and Open Data
GIFT Stewards’ Meeting
Cascais, Portugal - October 15, 2018
Lorena Rivero del Paso
Manager for Technical Collaboration & Cooperation
@LorenaRDP
@fiscaltrans

2. The Potential of Technology for Fiscal Openness
Technology for technology sake is not useful to enable public participation, but used correctly it is our most powerful tool for fiscal openness, understood both as transparency and participation.
Elements of e-participation measured by the U.N. are:
the provision of information on the internet,
online public consultations,
and involving citizens directly in decision processes.
Reimagining public conversations in terms of who is involved and how they can participate.

3. Tools of e-participation
The ever changing nature requires both curiosity and data analysis to help define what works, and what can be done better next time.
Websites,
SMS,
Open Data
Social media,
Apps
Artificial Intelligence

4. Building bridges through fiscal transparency portals
Document availability
Open Budget Survey 2017:
Of the 920 documents that should have been published online in a timely manner, only 561 were.
Of the 561, 203 documents are produced, but are internal in hard copy or released too late.

5. Building bridges through fiscal transparency portals: Mexico
Open Fiscal Data Package: Budget allocations and expenditures
Open Contracting
Extractive Industries
Performance indicators
Citizen budget
Public works

6. Building a bridge through Open Data
While Open data might sound specialized, it is one of the most important enablers of fiscal information use.

7. Building a bridge through Open Data
Open data is NOT only for IT specialized users.
Open data is useful for internal and external users.
Different topics, interests and forms of analysis.
Budget
Revenue
Construction
Contracting
Extractives
Performance

8. Building a bridge through Open Data
Digital data of a public nature that is accessible online and that can be used, reused or redistributed by any person.
Open Data Barometer
Open Budget 9/35
Australia
Germany
Mexico
New Zealand
Paraguay
Russia
South Korea
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Open Spend only 4/35
Canada
Mexico
United Kingdom
Uruguay

9. Building a bridge through Open Data: Open Fiscal Data Package
Open Fiscal Data Package allows to have easy access, comparable and updated information.

10. Building a bridge through Open Data: Open Fiscal Data Package
Basis to connect other relevant data.

11. Building a bridge through social media
Apps and Portals have a tendency to try to take the user away from the platforms they already use in daily life.
+2.2 Billion active
+336 Million active

12. Building a bridge through social media
Social media stopped being just a one way communication tool that goes from government to citizen.
Public participation spectrum

13. Building a bridge through social media: Observatorio del Gasto Fiscal Chile
Tool for governments and civil society organizations.
Create engagement with information.
Go beyond the “usual suspects”.

14. …Building a bridge through Artificial Intelligence
AI is, by far, not only for robots.
…Building a bridge through Artificial Intelligence

15. Building a bridge through Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence allows us to understand better our user and connect the information with the users own terms of search.
It surrounds our daily life
Big Data analysis
E-assistants
Chatbots
Translation services
It is not futuristic as it sounds. There are tools out that allow us to implement:
RapidPro - UNICEF
Core NLP- Stanford
Dialogflow – Google
Google Cloud Natural Language API
Watson – IBM

16. Building a bridge through Artificial Intelligence
Open Data
Bring analytics to government domains where it’s currently underutilized.
Improve the performance of existing analytic technologies, like computer vision and time series analysis.
Break down barriers, including language barriers.

17. Building a bridge through Artificial Intelligence

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