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San Pedro Garza García, Mexico

Making transparency proactive in Nuevo León (MXSPG0003)

Overview

At-a-Glance

Action Plan: Action plan – San Pedro Garza García, Mexico, 2022 – 2024

Inception Report Summary: Inception Report – Action plan – San Pedro Garza García, Mexico, 2022 – 2024

Commitment Start: Jan 2023
Commitment End: Jun 2024

Institutions involved:

  • Comptrollership and Government Transparency of the Government of the State of Nuevo Leon
  • Secretariat of Innovation and Open Government of the Municipality of Monterrey
  • Secretariat of Innovation and Citizen Participation of San Pedro Garza García
  • Secretariat for Access to Information of the State Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data
  • Secretariat of Citizen Participation of the Government of the State of Nuevo León
  • Secretariat of Citizen Participation of the Government of the State of Nuevo León
  • Cómo Vamos Nuevo León
  • Nuevo León Council for Strategic Planning

Primary Policy Area:

Primary Sector:

OGP Value:

  • Access to information
  • Public Accountability
  • Civic Participation

Inception Report Summary

Verifiable: Yes

Relevance to OGP Values: Yes

The commitment is a continuation of ongoing practice in line with existing legislation, policies or requirements.

The commitment activities is a positive change to a process, practice or policy but will not generate a binding or institutionalized change across government or specific institution(s).

Description

Commitment ID

MXSPG0003

Commitment Title

Making transparency proactive in Nuevo León

Problem

The public information that institutions proactively make available is insufficient, difficult to access (media and formats) and fails to take into account the population’s information needs for the construction of socially useful knowledge in Nuevo León. Currently, the Law of Transparency and Access to Public Information of the State of Nuevo León contemplates that the obligated subjects of this Law must promote and implement proactive transparency policies ensuring their accessibility. However, proactive transparency exercises are isolated and lack social innovation to solve other public problems. This public problem stems from multiple causes. First, the information that public institutions proactively make available lacks a citizen perspective. Second, the means and formats for consultation are complex and difficult to access. Additionally, digital media is privileged, without taking into account the digital divide. Third, the methodological tools and technical training aimed at implementers are limited. Therefore, the implementation of proactive transparency exercises presents deficiencies for the interpretation, implementation and social innovation of the Guidelines to conform the catalogs and to carry out the publication of information of public interest; as well as for the issuance and evaluation of proactive transparency policies, issued by the National Transparency System.

Status quo

According to the 2021 Open Government Metric, the State of Nuevo León has a score of 0.35 for the "Proactive Transparency" component, which corresponds to the publication of useful information for citizens beyond mandatory information; the national average is 0.38. On the other hand, in the component of "Access to Information from the citizen perspective", which measures the quality of the response that a person receives when requesting information from the regulated entities, Nuevo León has a score of 0.62 (overall average: 0.64). Finally, for the "Open Data" component, Nuevo León has a score of 0.10. The Open Government Metric is an exercise to measure the scope of government openness in public offices in Mexico, from a citizen perspective. It is specified that the Metric is measured on a scale of 0 to 1, where 1 is indicative of a totally open government and 0 of a government without openness. Additionally, the State Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data developed an analysis of compliance with transparency obligations. Specifically, it was determined that only 39.3% of all reporting entities publish information that answers the questions most frequently asked by the public, provided for in article 95 section LIV of the Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information of the State of Nuevo Leon.

Action

This commitment consists of generating a proactive transparency guide, which allows the regulated entities of the state of Nuevo León to have a guiding methodological tool that facilitates the identification, generation, publication and dissemination of proactive transparency practices in a clear and simple way for the population, from a citizen perspective. The construction of this instrument should be carried out through a collaborative process that contemplates 1) the generation of a diagnosis to determine the characteristics that favor the consultation of information by the population; 2) the identification of existing content and good national and international practices and 3) participatory processes to identify information needs and priority thematic content from the social perspective. Finally, the publication of the guide will be promoted through official media, including its use and implementation in the public entities that are part of the Coalition. The objective of the commitment is to increase the implementation of new proactive transparency exercises by public institutions that respond to the population's demand for information based on the criteria defined in this guide.

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

The obligated subjects of the state of Nuevo León will have a guide to generate proactive transparency practices that allow the strengthening of the offering of information of high public interest through optimal formats and channels for consultation from a perspective of easy access. Likewise, it will be encouraged that this guide be published in official sources to generate a turning point in the practices and policies of the public institutions of the State of Nuevo León that are dedicated to this matter. Also, it is considered decisive to promote the use of the guide in order to detonate the generation of new exercises for the construction of socially useful knowledge. To monitor the above, a follow-up report will be made on the implementation of the guide, in which non-governmental actors will participate.

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

This commitment is related to strengthening an effective and transparent government that is proactively accountable. By virtue of this, it is intended to generate an instrument that allows proactive transparency practices that allow the population to clearly and easily know the information generated within the scope of its powers, to reduce information asymmetries, optimize procedures and services, promote informed decision-making and trigger accountability.Likewise, the generation of this proactive transparency guide seeks to endorse the potential of the Nuevo León Abierto Coalition to be a creative, articulated, transformative, and multisectoral space that allows promoting public policies and government decisions that center on the people under the principles of open government.

Primary Policy Area

Right to Information, Social Accountability

Primary Sector

Other/NA

What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?

Access to information Due to the fact that through the instrument, content that favors proactive transparency practices will be generated, promoting the offering of public information.
Public Accountability The purpose of the guide is to establish the steps to follow to generate proactive transparency practices, so that its implementation may promote exercises by public entities focused on accountability.
Civic Participation During the development of the instrument, the implementation of citizen participation mechanisms will be promoted. Likewise, the instrument will define those participation mechanisms that can be used to identify relevant and useful information.

Milestones

13 Milestones
1

Generate a diagnosis on the task and social needs of proactive transparency.

Start Date02/2023
End Date04/2023
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2

Identify existing content on proactive transparency.

Start Date01/2023
End Date02/2023
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3

Trigger an exchange of good practices

Start Date02/2023
End Date03/2023
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4

Carry out a Citizen Consultation on the priority thematic agendas for the demand and supply of public information

Start Date02/2023
End Date03/2023
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5

Drafting of the Proactive Transparency Guide

Start Date03/2023
End Date05/2023
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6

Guide feedback through a “commented document”

Start Date07/2023
End Date07/2023
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7

Identify the needs of public information topics through the participation mechanism.

Start Date08/2023
End Date09/2023
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8

Integrate comments and areas of opportunity.

Start Date09/2023
End Date10/2023
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9

Generation of didactic content for the socialization of the guide

Start Date11/2023
End Date11/2023
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10

Publication of the guide in official sources and dissemination of the Guide on social networks.

Start Date12/2023
End Date01/2024
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11

Socialization of the guide

Start Date02/2024
End Date03/2024
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12

Promote voluntary manifestation to implement the guide and trigger proactive transparency exercises.

Start Date04/2024
End Date04/2024
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13

Generate a follow-up report on the implementation of the guide.

Start Date05/2024
End Date06/2024
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