In Latin America, the increased release of open government data aims to strengthen the transparency and accountability of governments, build new business opportunities, and improve services for citizens. This project will explore innovative approaches for using and understanding public data to promote more inclusive government services and policies, address rights and disinformation challenges, and enhance gender equality. It will focus on three major areas: gender-based violence, assistance to migrants, and emergency procurement.
To address the challenge of gender-based violence in Latin America, notably femicides, the project will examine how newly released official government data can be used to end violence against women through innovative approaches. With respect to migrants, growing civic unrest and massive economic disparities have led to a major increase in irregular migration in some countries. The project will begin to explore the challenges of taking a data-focused approach to supporting the needs of migrants and displaced peoples. This research will emphasize human rights, combatting misinformation and xenophobia, and facilitating better services for communities in need.
Finally, the pandemic has caused an enormous increase in emergency procurement, which, when poorly managed, can negatively impact the delivery of crucial services and goods. The Open Contracting Partnership will support action research to make emergency procurement more inclusive, effective, and efficient in the context of COVID-19. Further, since only an estimated 1% of public contracts go to women-owned businesses, the research will explore key barriers and gaps for this group in bidding for public contracts.
This project is part of the Open Data for Development (OD4D) program, a global network using data to promote social good. The OD4D network is funded by IDRC, Global Affairs Canada, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Visibilizando la violencia y discriminación contra la población LGBTIQ+ : mapeo para el mejoramiento de datos sobre violencia por orientación sexual e identidad de género - un análisis sobre Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua Informe Autor(es) : Fumega, Silvana, Ruiz, Ana Sofia, Fallas, Hassel Lenguaje: Español |
Opening data for inclusive practices in migration, public contracting, and combatting gender-based violence Report This report provides the status of the project 109520-001 Open Data for Development Phase 3. The report details the activities carried forward by ILDA and its partners according to the objectives set in the initial proposal. The main objective for this project is: to strengthen understanding of the role and use of data and open data for driving social and economic development outcomes through the generation of action-oriented research and evidence on data innovations, and in scaling what works (in the delivery of key public services, in promoting local innovation, and in greater accountability and transparency). Autor(es) : Scrollini, Fabrizio, Fumega, Silvana, Cervantes, Maria Esther Lenguaje: Inglés |
Apertura y uso de datos para hacer frente al COVID-19 en América Latina Estudios Autor(es) : Vásquez Valdivia, Álvaro Lenguaje: Español |
Feminicide & machine learning : detecting gender-based violence to strengthen civil sector activism Article Although governments have passed legislation criminalizing feminicide, it is unaccompanied by relevant policy or robust data collection. This participatory action research project is designed to help sustain activist efforts to collect feminicide data through partially automated detection using machine learning. As a way to counter the impunity surrounding feminicide, activists have taken upon themselves to do the work that states have neglected. Partially automating detection supports efforts to systematize and sort data collection across contexts, and helps to inform policy advocacy through standardizing definitions and taxonomies. The ability to prioritize articles by likelihood of feminicide will make this intense research less gruelling. Autor(es) : D’Ignazio, Catherine, Val, Helena Suárez, Fumega, Silvana, Suresh, Harini, Cruxên, Isadora Lenguaje: Inglés |
Barómetro regional de datos abiertos para América Latina y el Caribe 2020 Informe Autor(es) : Fumega, Sylvana, Zamora, David Lenguaje: Español |
Datos para el desarrollo : el camino por recorrer Informe Autor(es) : Scrollini, Fabrizio, Clancy, Katie, Fumega, Silvana, Ruiz, Ana Sofia Lenguaje: Español |
Towards gender balance in public procurement : understanding the barriers and solutions to include women-led businesses Study Value for Women (VfW) and the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) developed this report to document the challenges and opportunities in empowering women-led businesses (WLBs) in public procurement. VfW is a women-led global social enterprise that works closely with partners to design and implement research, technical assistance programs, evaluations, tools and capacity-building initiatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America. OCP is a silo-busting collaboration across governments, businesses, civil society, and technologists to open up and transform government contracting worldwide. Public contracts are the single biggest item of spending by most governments and a number one risk for corruption. Autor(es) : Lenguaje: Inglés |
How to empower women-led businesses and make public procurement more inclusive Study This paper identifies actions that can be carried out by governments to empower women-led businesses and make public procurement more inclusive. Gender-responsive procurement is defined as the selection of goods, civil works or services that take into account their impact on gender equality and women's empowerment. Women can bring innovation to the services and products provided by the government, particularly by ensuring that services and products that will benefit women are also designed by them. Issues with payment delays in public procurement mean that businesses need access to finance in public contracting. Autor(es) : Lenguaje: Inglés |