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Buenos Aires 3D City is an open digital platform that allows three-dimensional visualization of each neighborhood and, specifically, the areas where it is possible to build infrastructure (i.e., housing, commercial and retail buildings, etc.) according to the current city's regulations. The platform is open to district decision-makers and professionals working in the construction industry; it functions as an interdisciplinary work tool to simplify procedures, provide predictability and…
The innovation was born amid the pandemic and was inspired by the thousands of women that were locked up and forced to live with their aggressors. Just as an example, in 2020, the 144 hotline received >108 thousand communications related to domestic violence. We developed a comprehensive system of care for victims of gender violence in order to improve the state's response to the problem. The innovation consisted not only the gathering and systematizing of information, but also considered…
In order to implement innovative solutions in the city of Córdoba under an open innovation approach, the local government launched the Córdoba Smart City Fund, the first Govtech fund in Latin America, to invest and partner with impact startups that contribute to the development of a smarter, more inclusive and sustainable city.
The project has the objective of accompanying, complementing, and strengthening the jurisdictional efforts of re-linking and permanence of students in the educational system through the national program "Volvé a la escuela" (Go Back to School) and jurisdictional initiatives, based on simple and cost-effective behavioral science interventions such as cellphone messaging. A mobile messaging strategy (text message and/or Whatsapp) will be designed to encourage students and their families to…
Innovacion Publica (IP) 360 seeks to respond to the low levels of trust in government and to the unequal distribution of innovation in Latin America's public sector. The project has a holistic approach to reach local governments that are not part of the mainstream opengov networks. It delivers actions in 19 local governments to strengthen citizen participation, transparency and digitalization. The lessons learned are then scaled up through a regional learning community of public innovators.
The Municipal Management Portal is an online platform for local government policy practitioners to learn and share expertise and build collaborative networks across Argentina and internationally. The Portal is innovative not only through new applications of technology but also because it reflects a new conceptual understanding of Argentinian local government as open, professionalised and dynamic.
Tax amnesties, a limited-time opportunity for a specified group of taxpayers to pay a defined amount of tax liabilities, are broadly used across countries because they generate short-term revenue gains. However, evidence suggest that tax amnesties fail to have long-term effects, and in some cases, they generate negative effects on compliance. With the goal of evaluating the impact of tax amnesties, this experiment relies on the behavioral principle of limited attention and redesigns the…
As rewards increasingly become an instrument used by policymakers, it is important to find a reward mechanism that does not crowd out intrinsic motivation, is long lasting, and has positive spillover effects on third parties. A policy innovation introduced by the Municipality of Santa Fe (Argentina) allowed us to evaluate different mechanisms for rewarding tax compliance – participation in a lottery (financial motive), public recognition (moral channel), and provision of a visible and durable…
Buenos Aires COVID-19 Open Data As part of its commitment to open data, the city government has made public the datasets it uses to make decisions on its Covid-19 response. The indicators and data presented relate to government actions on the detection, referral, monitoring and isolation of Covid-19 cases; changes in the use of public and private transport; and how public space is being transformed in the city. www.buenosaires.gob.ar › coronavirus › datos