Repetitive tasks for a civil servant involve between 3 and 6 hours a day, and generate delays in administrative processes and increase human errors. By innovating the automation of these tasks, using a free Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software, response times, costs and quality of service within the District institutions and to the citizen are improved.
Country: Colombia
Challenge
Tax delinquencies are a major problem for most tax administrations in the world. In Colombia, the National Accountant Office estimated the total outstanding debt to the National Tax Agency at $2.5 billion, which represents about 20 percent of estimated total tax evasion in 2014. Finding ways to reduce tax delinquencies is critical for both fiscal and equity considerations. A previous study compared messages about due liabilities delivered through three channels (letter, email, or…
In response to the COVID19 crisis, the Government of Colombia has made available open data on all confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in Colombia. The data can be accessed on multiple official websites, including the national open data portal. The data are at individual level, disaggregated by gender, city, department, status of the case (recovered, isolation), severity of the case (e.g. mild, asymptomatic), date of notification, if the individual case was imported from another country, date of…
Innovative response: emergency framework agreement for agencies to procure easily during the COVID emergency, with full disclosure in OCDS format.
Colombia has issued an emergency decree about public procurement during the COVID crisis, allowing expedited procedures to procure the necessary goods and services.The National Procurement Agency Colombia Compra Eficiente (CCE) has asked all companies who can supply these critical products to register to be included in this framework agreement. CCE…
Profesor del sector oficial de la ciudad de Bogota diseño un sistema virtual de apoyo escolar para aprender en casa por el cierre de todos los colegios y escuelas de Colombia.
El portal educativo www.micolegioenlanube.com contiene todos los recursos educativos que debe tener cualquier colegio desde aulas virtuales, videoteca, biblioteca digital, cursos en linea, juegos educativos, simulaciones, infografias y planes curriculares con guias educativas para todos los grados.
Con esta innovación…
The digital economy is booming in Medellín. So is digital tax evasion. To identify potential tax evaders, the local treasury department used to detect unregistered online stores manually. Since the use of social media for economic activities has grown exponentially, the agency has now developed a bot that automatically scrapes Instagram for such stores - and officers can use their time instead to work with store owners to formalize their businesses.
MEData is the strategy for providing, appropriating and using the public data of Medellin. It will become the official information source of the city, where citizens will have constant and reliable data that can be used to generate knowledge, promote technological innovation and boost economy. it is the first government platform that integrates strategic information sources into a big data technology and automatically synchronizes them with an open data portal.