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The Open Data Portal guarantees that anyone, regardless of their technical knowledge, can move from doubts about Mexico City to answers based on data. Through an interactive data visualization tool, it seeks to transfer the power to analyze the information generated by the government to the citizenry. The portal is innovative because of its robust visualization tool and it having been fully developed in open source; allowing users to find data, visualize it, cross reference it and build stories,…

In the face of the talent deficit faced by the productive sector in the digital era, PLAi seeks to develop the skills required for Jalisco to consolidate itself as a hub of innovation. It offers training to the economically active population through partnerships with national and international institutions. It is innovative because it takes advantage of good practices of private initiative and the public sector, as well as technological and educational advances in the world and brings everything…

Data Mexico was developed to integrate and transform public and private sector data to enable a better understanding of the economic and social context. The platform facilitates strategic decision-making through key evidence and integrating databases with technologies for aggregating, filtering and reorganising information. In this way, it innovates in public access to data, contributing to the development, diversification and promotion of the Mexican economy.

The innovation was developed to strengthen the Secretariat of Public Function of the Federal Government's powers in terms of real-time monitoring, control and auditing of procurement contracts carried out by public sector agencies and entities. BESA is an online tool that monitors, from start to finish, compliance with contracts for goods and services. It seeks to identify and eliminate bad practices that the public sector carries out during the execution of procurement contracts.

The project was created due to the low level of digitisation of the procedures offered by the Government of the State of Guanajuato and the lengthy nature of procedures. A State-wide strategy of optimisation and digitisation was implemented to streamline services and save time and resources for both the Government and citizens. A major innovation was made in the form of attention to citizen needs and carrying out steps of the procedure through the use of electronic means, prior to the citizen's…

The Pro Integrity Badge (Distintivo Pro Integridad) of Jalisco's State Comptroller's Office (Contraloría del Estado de Jalisco) is a badge that is awarded to companies that prove they have an integrity policy defined as the set of self-regulation elements and internal controls that allow mitigating and reducing corruption risks, as well as guaranteeing a culture of integrity within companies and organizations.

Prebases is the regional benchmark for modernisation in procurement, which promotes citizen participation in the planning of strategic and high-impact procurement procedures. In an innovative, open, unique and replicable way, it provides benefits to more than 9 million inhabitants by creating a space for citizen listening and participation, as well as the 90 purchasing units by strengthening their planning, contracting better products and obtaining savings for Mexico City (CDMX).

The Ministry of Education of Guanajuato seeks to address the notably high school drop out rates with the help of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Student trajectories are identified to create strategies and public policies to increase attainment and the educational level of the population. These efforts lay the groundwork to generate an Early Warning System to identify students at risk of dropping out of school.

The Anti-Corruption Digital Marketplace (MDA) is the first space developed by a public institution in the history of Mexico, in which public institutions can share free and ready-to-use digital tools, in order to streamline and promote innovation and cooperation among those that need either software, or other digital resources to achieve common goals in addressing corruption. The MDA contains more than 22 tools, some of them have been developed by other national or local level public…

Mi Taxi, My Cab, part of Mexico City’s App, was created to boost trust in the public cab network by making the service safer. It provides information about the drivers and the cabs' public concessions. Users can rate the trip and activate a panic button connected to the City’s Intelligence Agency, C5. Negative perceptions of safety among the public lead the Government to grasp the situation faced by drivers and users, particularly women, and thus developed the initial phase of the app,…