1. Evolution of Mexico’s Fiscal Transparency Portal

2. + Transparency Participation Accountability Efficiency Effectiveness
Why?
Transparency +
Participation
Accountability
Efficiency
Effectiveness

3. ? 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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. Balance
Data + open formats

7. Balance
Simple language

8. Balance
Visualizations

9. Results
994%
in visitors
But…

10. Challenges
Naïve to assume that technology would completely reduce the information asymmetries between government and general public, and generate interest.

11. 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

12. Encourage and respond
Create channels

13. Encourage and respond
Create channels

14. Encourage and respond
Invite

15. Encourage and respond
Respond

16. Encourage and respond
Respond