Is the Fight Against Corruption in the Mexican States Being Squared? Comunication of Reusable Public Data

Abstract

One of the open government objectives is the fight against corruption through the divulgation of public information that facilitates the supervision of governors. However, in this process of active transparency, there are too many occasions when the technological dimensión is neglected, and the use of non-editable pdf files and documents is abused, making its possible reuse, difficult. For this reason, this study aims, in a Mexican state key, to valuable data that are doubly open, both because they are related to active transparency and because of the use of open licenses, interoperable formats and associated metadata, which will allow squared accountability. To this end, we analyzed the federal portal and, after observing that more than half of the Mexican states have a scarce presence, we also checked their regional repositories, noting that only Mexico City, Jalisco, State of Mexico, Puebla, Quintana Roo, and Tamaulipas have this initiative. The results show, after reviewing more than 2 000 datasets, that although there is some budgetary, procurement, and public servant information, the movement is incipient, and that the state leaders are Hidalgo, Jalisco, and Puebla