Post by account_disabled on Mar 7, 2024 6:03:57 GMT
The new reality of Mexico implies giving priority to social, environmental, human, technological, etc. aspects, highlighting the presence of projects by civil organizations (NGOs) and individual citizens, which were awarded the Innovation in Transparency award 2019, organized by the National Institute of Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI).
In recent years, this event has prioritized social issues and the responsibility of individuals, non-governmental sectors, private and government initiatives.
Francisco Javier Acuña, president commissioner of the INAI, commented that the recognitions given to public organizations “are not awards for doing what they should do, but for doing things better and going beyond the call of duty.”
He cited that a web portal and access to data in a transparent manner is a government obligation, which must invite the more than 82 million Internet users in Mexico to find the information they request in an easy and simple way.
He explained that government agencies Chile Mobile Number List must earn the trust of the citizen, “because currently there is great discredit and social unrest towards public officials, people do not want to carry out official procedures for fear and discomfort of falling into the pit of bureaucracy. . That anguish of the person must be alleviated and the institutions made friendly,” he said.
Since this contest was held in 2009, there has been a record of more than 800 participating projects and 90 winners over nine years. In 2019, 87 projects were registered, obtaining 16 winners from public bodies, NGOs and individuals.
For his part, Javier González, official of the Effective Governance and Democracy program of the UN Development Program in Mexico, commented that our country has great challenges to achieve transparency.
“The crisis of democracy is the collapse of social trust and these types of challenges are those that transparency faces. The UNDP is convinced of the need to end the opacity that hinders economic growth,” she mentioned.
“It is very important that all social, environmental and economic sectors adopt transparency as a transversal axis, since SDG 16 seeks for various official policies to combat poverty and inequality,” he said.
Among some of the winners we can mention in the category of civil organizations: The Mexican Center for Environmental Law, CartoCrítica and Reforestamos México, which created the site “Open Forests”, which provides forest conservation data.
Ernesto Herrera, general director of Reforestamos México, stated that “this platform seeks to address not only forestry aspects, but also to be an engine of social development for thousands of people in the countryside who suffer from poverty.
He said that this type of initiative seeks to provide a better forest diagnosis service, although I cannot stop regretting that they do not receive financial resources from the Mexican government, being forced to look for money abroad.
“We are experiencing great challenges, since the budget required by the forestry sector is not allocated and it is not understood that without nature poverty cannot be alleviated,” he emphasized.
The civil organization Article 19 was recognized for its portal demanding the truth for crimes committed by defenders of free expression.
In the government category: the Ministry of Public Education was awarded for its data portal that transparent expenses on scholarships and delivery of money to secretariats of the branch in the states; the National Telecommunications Institute for its online radio monitoring site during official campaigns, the Bank of Mexico for its financial services comparator and the National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR) for its forest monitoring and economic resource management site in this sector.
Jorge León Castaños, general director of CONAFOR, accepted that it must be recognized that forestry work has to be transparent and "our vision is to be an innovative and inclusive institution that always thinks about the people of the countryside."
“The social issue is essential for all of Mexico and we seek to influence those rural and peasant spaces that were forgotten by past administrations,” he reiterated.
In the category of individual people, the case of the citizen stands out: Luis Ignacio Ortiz, who developed a site and Application (APP), to demand information on security issues.
In the state category, the case of the “Oaxaca Gender Atlas” project stands out, carried out by the General Directorate of Population of Oaxaca (Digepo), it is a digital platform that brings together information from different indicators about the State, to expose the inequalities between women and men, as well as the additional differences derived from the geographical location of the different municipalities of the state.
This award is granted by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) and is headed by the INAI.