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Measuring Open Government: Design, Results, and Contributions of the Open Government Index in Mexico
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Guillermo Cejudo
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7865-2557
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Pablo de los Cobos
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3339-6016
- Diana Laura Ramírez Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
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Abstract
As with any public intervention, open government strategies need to be informed by evidence in order to assess their performance, their results, and their opportunities for improvement. Since 2017, in Mexico, the Open Government Metric (MGA, by its Spanish acronym) measures the way in which a person may know what government offices do and influence their decisions. Thanks to its design, its scope, and the disaggregation of its results, the MGA allows us to know the state of government openness in the country. In this paper, we explain how the MGA was designed and we detail its methodology. We show how disaggregated information allows for specific diagnoses, analysis of territorial and time variations, and, more importantly, provides inputs for open government agendas based on evidence, focused on the specific challenges of each public office, and with the possibility of being evaluated and monitored.Keywords:
Open government , transparency , participation , open data , freedom of information , collaborative governanceReferences
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