Creation of spatial data infrastructure for urban development in Monterrey (MXMTY0002)

Commitment ID

MXMTY0002

Commitment Title

Creation of spatial data infrastructure for urban development in Monterrey, that guarantees the right to the city, under the open government principles

Problem

Traditional urban planning, on which Monterrey was based, is insufficient to address the new urban challenges faced by today's metropolises. Consequently, it is necessary to develop urban planning models that are compatible with the digital, interconnected, and complex era of today. It is imperative that Monterrey has a data and information infrastructure that allows the urban design to be paired with digitization processes that facilitate results-based interventions in order to formulate public policies that bring it closer to urban governance that can respond to its challenges. To achieve this, it is imperative that transparency and anti-corruption, citizen participation, digitization, and accessibility of information and data are prioritized in urban development. It would be impossible to move towards an urban governance model that is compatible with the needs of the city without these factors.

Status quo

In Nuevo León, 9 of the 51 municipalities concentrate 80.27% of the population, 87.7% of the state's GDP, and 89.9% of employment (Population and Housing Census 2020; Economic Census, 2019). It is necessary to emphasize that, within the urban population, those who live in peripheral areas are exposed to a greater social and environmental vulnerability, having limited access to equipment, services, sources of employment, public spaces, and safe mobility (SEDATU, 2020). Urban development has been positioned as a public issue due to the lack of transparency in issues central to this problem, such as building permits, the risk level for construction, and improvement needs in public spaces. Information on these issues is imperative at every level to enhance the interventions, decision-making, and public policies regarding urban governance and housing policies, based on evidence (Omusla, 2020).

Action

Through inter-institutional collaboration, the commitment seeks to make available data relevant to the topic of urban development that will be used for consultation under the principles of transparency, innovation and accountability. It is intended that through the data shared in the period of a year and a half, it will be possible to: Map the needs for improvement in public spaces (with data that will make it possible to know the deficits of public space); Consult information on urban developments, such as risk level and building permits in an open format; Access information on land use, cadastres, settlements, housing and occupied spaces; Identify civil society organizations that work on these issues.

How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?

The outputs expected would be the collection, publication and visualization of data obtained from collaborative work with the Secretariat of Sustainable Urban Development and the Municipal Institute of Urban Planning and Coexistence of Monterrey. From its transparency and publication in the open data platform of the municipality of Monterrey, it is expected that citizens, civil society and academia make use of the information for projects and research to promote improvements in the current urban development problems. Likewise, it is expected that from these actions there will be an improvement in accountability. It is relevant to emphasize that although data transparency does not directly solve the public problem, having more information about it can encourage public policies and social changes to solve the problem.

What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?

This commitment aligns with goals 1 and 3 of our Open Government Strategy:

Strengthen an effective government with responsible, efficient, transparent, and proactively accountable institutions.
To have institutions with innovative processes and technological tools that ease interactions and citizens' participation in public life.

Primary Policy Area

Open Data, Right to Information

Primary Sector

Infrastructure & Transport, Land & Spatial Planning

What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?