End of Commitment Report – Participation through innovation with open data – dataLABNL with Open Government

Name of Evaluator

Ricardo Luevano

Email

ricardo.luevano@inai.org.mx

Member Name

Nuevo Leon (State), Mexico

Action PlanAction plans are at the core of a government’s participation in OGP. They are the product of a co-creation process in which government and civil society jointly develop commitments to open governmen... Title

Action plan – Nuevo Leon (State), Mexico, 2022 – 2024

CommitmentOGP commitments are promises for reform co-created by governments and civil society and submitted as part of an action plan. Commitments typically include a description of the problem, concrete action...

Participation through innovation with open dataBy opening up data and making it sharable and reusable, governments can enable informed debate, better decision making, and the development of innovative new services. Technical specifications: Polici... – dataLABNL with Open Government

Title

Participation through innovation with open data – dataLABNL with Open Government

Action

The Secretariat of Culture, the Secretariat of Citizen ParticipationAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, citizen participation occurs when “governments seek to mobilize citizens to engage in public debate, provide input, and make contributions that lead to m... More, and the Secretariat of Administration will develop the dataLABNL program with Open Government. The program will allow the people of Nuevo León, through physical and virtual tools and spaces, to use open data (preferably from the State Public Administration). Through the prototyping of solutions, the people of Nuevo Leon will ensure their permanent participation in creating innovative and collaborative solutions to address public problems in Nuevo León. As a result of this commitment, the role of people as active agents of change will be recognized in the generation of projects that address different issues and needs in Nuevo León by following the principles of Open Government.

Problem

The State of Nuevo León lacks transversal policies and guidelines that favor Open Government. As a result, the people of Nuevo León do not have the guarantees, incentives, physical means, and enough information to promote participatory, social, and technological innovation oriented toward the creation of collaborative public policies. The public administrations of Nuevo Leon have not created sufficient spaces that emphasize the openness, availability, accessibility, and reuse of public data in open formats, spaces that promote participatory spaces with different forms of mass collaboration and generation of new and innovative technological applications of a citizen nature, that enhance the development and use of collective intelligence to improve participatory and collaborative management processes for the generation of solutions to public problems in the state. However, there is a disruptive and visionary space that has sought to address this problem: dataLABNL. This commitment seeks to create a program based on dataLABNL, a program that is improved by the principles of Open Government, that drives innovation models for the promotion of participation with open data that moves towards the effective participation of citizens in government administration, through proposals that allow the collaborative development of policies that address the challenges of today’s society.

1.1 What was the overall level of progress in the commitment implementation at the time of this assessment?

complete

Provide a brief explanation of your answer:

According to the current work plan, all established milestones were met and the verification methods consulted correspond to what was established.

Provide evidence that supports and justifies your answer:

Evidence – open data participation

1.2 Describe the main external or internal factors that impacted implementation of this commitment and how they were addressed (or not).

The participation of civil society in the commitment had an impact since members of civil society organizations did not have the possibility of joining the activities; from this approach, civil society always had the shared folders where the documents were worked on available so that they could give their opinion on the development of the milestones.
On the other hand, this commitment was implemented within the framework of the presidential electoral process, which had consequences when socializing and presenting the different milestones publicly, which is why there were delays in deliverables.

1.3 Was the commitment implemented as originally planned?

Most of the commitment milestones were implemented as planned

Provide a brief explanation of your answer:

According to the content of the Implementation Report of the Local Open Government Action Plan 2022-2024 of Nuevo León, a series of modifications were made to the milestones described in the Local Open Government Action Plan. In this sense, the timing and composition of the milestones were modified, but they are identified as complementary and aligned to the end

Provide evidence for your answer:

Evidence – open data participation_1

2.1.1. Did the government disclose more information; improve the quality of the information (new or existing); improve the value of the information; improve the channels to disclose or request information or improve accessibility to information?

Yes

Degree of result:

Major

Explanation: In narrative form, what has been the impact on people or practice.

In the development of the milestones, there was an inter-institutional link and collaboration between government departments. This adds value when generating the information, since there were different perspectives on the matter. On the other hand, a milestone that marked the development of the commitment was the Orientative Guide, which allows the creation of a useful instrument for any public servant for the development and generation of open data sets.
On the other hand, the creation of the Open Data Platform is visualized, which enables the consultation of information from data sets in categories such as citizen attention, culture, and administration.

Provide evidence for your answer:

Evidencia-participar-datos-abiertos2.docx

2.1.2. – Did the government create new opportunities to seek feedback from citizens/enable participation inform or influence decisions; improve existing channels or spaces to seek feedback from citizens/enable participation/ inform or influence decisions; create or improve capabilities in the government or the public aimed to improve how the government seeks feedback from citizens/enables participation/ or allows for the public to inform or influence decisions?

Yes

Degree of result:

Outstanding

Explanation: In narrative form, what has been the impact on people or practice.

Within the development of the milestones, channels were opened that allowed the participation and feedback of civil society organizations in general. Such is the case of the focus groups, immersed in the Guide.
On the other hand, a call for “prototyping” sessions was launched, the objective of which was to receive project proposals or ideas that generate experimental prototypes from civil associations, students, etc.

2.1.3 Did the government create or improve channels, opportunities or capabilities to hold officials answerable to their actions?

Unclear

Degree of result:

Marginal

Explanation: In narrative form, what has been the impact on people or practice.

The open data portal identifies those public institutions within the government of the state of Nuevo León that publish information. However, it does not identify the process by which other public institutions will be able to publish their information or, if applicable, what the strategy will be to expand it.

Provide evidence for your answer:

Evidence – open data participation_3

2.1.4 Other Results

Not Applicable

2.2 Did the commitment address the public policy problem that it intended to address as described in the action plan?

Yes

Provide a brief explanation of your answer:

The central problem to be addressed was defined as the lack of sufficient spaces for the opening, availability, accessibility, and reuse of public data in open formats in participatory spaces. Therefore, the development of the milestones has allowed the generation of an Open Data Portal, which allows greater openness of information to be consulted, used, and redistributed. In addition to this, the prototyping strategy will allow the population to reuse the information for a purpose.

Provide evidence for your answer:

Evidence – open data participation_4

3. Provide at least one lesson or reflection relating to the implementation of this commitment. It can be the identification of key barriers to implementation, an unexpected help/hindrance, recommendations for future commitments, or if the commitment should be taken forward to the next action plan.

An open data portal is an open government mechanism that allows public data to be opened. Considering the above, it is important to make this platform sustainable over time by adding more administrative departments through a mechanism that allows them to engage. Opening new data sets that are useful to the population. Also, opening participation mechanisms within the portal that allow identifying feedback from the population and measuring the quality of the data.