BY MAURILIO SOTO
The News
MEXICO CITY – The federal government said on Wednesday that it would work with a single “open list” of beneficiaries of National Crusade Against Hunger funds.
National Digital Strategy Coordinator Alejandra Lagunes Soto on Wednesday presented the 2013-15 Plan of Action for an Open Government, which will promote transparency in government purchases.
She said that all of the distributed funds for the National Crusade Against Hunger are being entered into a single registry, adding that the government absolutely respects rights to privacy and protection of personal data.
“Citizens will be able to see where public money goes, but at the same time we will promote citizen participation in the definition of budget priorities,” she added.
Lagunes Soto said that the Plan of Action also considers the possibility of making all changes in governmental bodies public, including information in the granting of government contracts.
She said that the project “is a new model for governance that looks to transform the relation between society and government to strengthen democracy.”
President Enrique Peña Nieto said through a recorded message that he promises to push forward government initiatives that contribute to the construction of greater spaces of dialogue with the goal of improving governmental openness standards.
Lagunes Soto said that this is the answer to citizen demand for the government to transform. She added that this plan of action with a two-year time frame will favorably impact the population by being an instrument to increase productivity and competitiveness in the country.
Peña Nieto said that the plan is “based in a culture of transparency, collaboration, participation and account auditing that allows the creation of new undertakings in the generation of solutions to public problems.”
These moves for transparency have been promoted by the Open Government Partnership, a voluntary international organization that incorporates different governmental bodies to work in concert to provide greater citizens access to the government’s actions, in turn fomenting confidence.
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