Argentinian Cities' Open Data Index
The Argentinian Cities' Open Data Index is a monitoring process carried out by the Open Knowledge Foundation, who evaluates the transparency of Argentinian municipalities following a standardized criterion. The index surveys the quality of open data on topics such as budget, public spending, public works, public transportation, election results, procurement and contracting, public places, administrative boundaries, regulations, environment, and public officials' salaries. Its purpose is to promote active transparency and accountability at the municipal level. Initially, the monitoring evaluated the openness status of 12 municipalities, but year by year new municipalities have been included. The index takes into account the data publication format, its license and gratuity, its availability for downloading and the frequency of updates.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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