The seminar allowed the sharing of national and international experiences on innovation in the public sector, new methodologies to generate innovative solutions to traditional problems of public administration, as well as for the publication and use of open government data. Below, we share with you some of the cases presented that reveal how open data can promote innovation in the public sector. Xalapa was the first municipality in Mexico to join the open data policy by uploading information to thedata.gob.mx platform .
The Xalapa Data Center, that is, its open data banks, are the most consulted in Mexico, above federal agencies, turning the Veracruz capital into an Ukraine Mobile Number List example at the national level. The most downloaded data are those linked to mobility and lighting. Along the same lines and as we told you in a previous blogpost , Xalapa held its first citizen innovation hackathon in October 2014, which resulted in 5 winning projects in municipal services and urban mobility.
Thus, the experience shared at the event by Gerardo Pérez Gallardo, Head of Electronic Government of Xalapa, reveals how open data allows for collaboratively solving community problems where known solutions no longer work. 2Jalisco For his part, David Gómez Álvarez, Undersecretary of Planning and Evaluation of Jalisco, Mexico, highlighted how open data allows shaping Open Government initiatives . Such is the case of the Development indicator monitoring system, MIDE Jalisco .
This initiative monitors 382 indicators monthly, of which 160 are included in the State Development Plan and more than 222 are complementary. Of the indicators included in the Plan, about half have an external information source.Likewise, as we told you in a previous blogpost , Mar del Plata organized its first citizen innovation hackathon during 2014, which gave rise to new apps created by the community that use open data to solve city challenges. Thus, Mar del Plata allows us to show how open data promotes a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation in the city.
Mide Jalisco has received two recognitions. In December 2013, it won first place in the “Monitoring instruments and indicators” category in the contest of good practices in monitoring and evaluation carried out by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy ( Coneval ). In September 2014, he obtained honorable mention in the “2nd. Recognition of good subnational practices in public social development policies in Latin America” granted by CIDE-Clear and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ).
Within the State of Jalisco, we also find the case of Zapopan. As Gustavo Acosta, Director of Government Innovation of said city, explained, Zapopan Lab made it possible to generate intergovernmental alliances and innovation communities . It is a civic innovation laboratory to create technology that solves or mitigates problems of the Jalisco city itself. At the same time, they have several challenges that you can join within the Codeando México Initiative that we tell you about in this blogpost .
As Andrea Barenque from the Comptroller's Office commented, Puebla was the first State in Mexico to create an Open Government Office . In October 2013, they carried out Open Data Puebla, the first open data initiative in the city. It allowed the development of four challenges linked to mobility and education. You can access their presentations here .
A success story outside of Mexico was also presented at the seminar. Such is the case of Mar del Plata, which was presented at the event by Renato Rossello, Secretary of Technological Development and Improvement of the Administration of the Municipality of General Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Under the Mar del Plata Creative Digital Program , the municipality is promoting the development of technology from which they launched the first citizen innovation application contest . It is in the process of selecting proposals and is looking for innovative ideas to improve the city using open data.