Commitments 1
A more efficient public management that is open to citizen monitoring
To increase transparency and accountability in public procurement, in benefits granted to the productive business sector, health management and policies, the employment promotion plan, the national budget, and the use of Artificial Intelligence in the Government, for a more efficient public management that is open to citizen control and monitoring.
To strengthen oversight of compliance with the Law on Access to Public Information and the National Open Data Strategy.
1.1 Citizen participation in the design of standard bidding documents for public contracts
Regulatory Agency for State Procurement (ARCE for its acronym in Spanish)
To design and institutionalize public consultation processes to enable citizen participation in the design of standard specifications of general application in order to receive input prior to its adoption as a regulatory instrument through the Digital Citizen Participation Platform.
Goals and/or major milestones
- To design the public consultation process for the standard bidding documents for the acquisition of goods and services of general use in the Government.
- To disseminate the implementation of the public consultation process through the application of a standardized specifications document.
- To submit at least four standard specifications for public consultation.
- To evaluate and document the public consultation process, identifying any lessons learned to be incorporated into the process.
1.2 To strengthen the openness, display, and downloading of public procurement data
Regulatory Agency for State Procurement (ARCE)
To strengthen the opening, visualization, and downloading of public procurement data by incorporating relevant information from the procurement system, such as the application of preferential regimes for the development of suppliers or the demand planning carried out by the executing units of the State.
Likewise, the commitment will include the incorporation of improvements for the downloading of information by potentially diverse users and new visualization alternatives that combine different dimensions of the acquisition process.
Goals and/or major milestones
- To make available the information regarding the annual contracting plans of the Central Administration.
- To publish information regarding the application of preferential public procurement regimes.
- To generate a space for exchange with different stakeholders (academia, civil society, among others) to identify other needs in terms of visualization and/or downloading of information.
- To implement the visualization and/or data download improvements that are identified as feasible.
- To generate training sessions for the visualization and/or downloading of information.
1.3 Transparency and accountability of benefits granted to the productive and business sector
Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Mining (MIEM, for its acronym in Spanish)
To implement a unified information system to ensure transparency and accountability regarding the tools for the promotion, support, and benefits provided by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM) to the national productive and business sector through its different executing units. A single repository of data of beneficiaries (individuals and legal entities) will be created in order to provide the citizens with updated information and the publication of open data of the companies participating in the Ministry's programs, facilitating access to information regarding the duration of the benefits, amounts, beneficiary sector, geographic area, etc.
In accordance with the proposals made during the participatory co-creation process of the 5th National Open Government Action Plan, for the design of the data registry in all cases, the information will be cross-cut by the following dimensions of beneficiaries or ownership of the company or cooperative: gender identity, ethnic-racial descent, age range, geographic location, and disability status, as appropriate.
Goals and/or major milestones
- Implementation of the unified information system.
- To gradually incorporate during the period of execution of the Plan, information, and data on the instruments and programs of the different executing units of the Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Mining, for which accountability will be provided.
- To implement a process for publishing data in open format. Creation of display panels to facilitate access to public information, improve data comprehension and facilitate data analysis; these panels will present information that will be disaggregated by different variables prioritized in consultation with potential users of this information.
- To implement a plan to spread and promote the use of published information.
1.4 Transparency and accountability of health management, policies, and programs
Ministry of Public Health (MSP, for its acronym in Spanish), DIGESE-Electronic Government Management, DIGESA- Health Sub directorate, DIGESA (General Directorate of Health) -OSN (National Health Objectives), DIGESNIS (General Directorate of the National Integrated Health System)-JUNASA (National Health Board).
To expand the availability of public information with regard to the operation of the national health system and the health resources available in the territory (infrastructure and human resources) and create an Observatory on the implementation of the National Health Objectives 2030, which allows citizens to monitor the main lines of health policy, facilitating the processes of consultation and public involvement in this effort, in accordance with the general guidelines established by the Law on Rights of Access to Public Information (Law No. 18,381 of 2008).
Throughout this process, the MSP is committed to advancing in the opening and publication of open data, incorporating new dimensions based on data demands identified in the system Atuservicio.uy.
Goals and/or major milestones
- To prepare and approve a new ATUSERVICIO Agreement, which incorporates the priorities foreseen for 2022-2024.
- To create a National Registry of Long-Stay Institutions for the Older Persons (ELEPEM, for its acronym in Spanish) and publish information in open data format.
- To conduct a mapping of human resources in the territory and publish geo-referenced maps with indicators of human resources available throughout the national territory, disaggregated by department and locality.
- To generate a Departmental System of Basic Health Resources Files in the territory and a version of simplified information files for publication that facilitates access to the public information produced.
- To publish as open data the information related to long-stay facilities, human resources indicators, and basic health resources in the national territory.
- To create and implement an Observatory to monitor the implementation of the National Health Objectives (OSN, for its acronym in Spanish) 2030. To publish objectives.
- To gradually incorporate the different information, reporting, and training components into the OSN Observatory.
- To publish the Basic Monitoring Data Matrix of the OSN 2030 Plan in open data format.
1.5 Transparency and accountability in the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan for Employment Promotion
Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MTSS, for its acronym in Spanish) – National Directorate of Employment
To account for the results and challenges of the Comprehensive Plan for Employment Promotion, facilitating access to data on employment policies aimed at young people between 15 and 29 years old, workers over 45 years old, and people with disabilities; including a process of data openness and development of displays that facilitate the understanding of the data by all individuals.
Goals and/or major milestones
- To develop processes for opening and publishing data of indicators on employment policies aimed at young people between 15 and 29 years of age, workers over 45 years of age, and people with disabilities.
- Develop visualization panels for monitoring employment policies aimed at young people between 15 and 29 years of age, workers over 45 years of age, and people with disabilities.
1.6 Observatory on the Governmental Use of Artificial Intelligence
Agency for e-Government and the Information and Knowledge Society (AGESIC, for its acronym in Spanish) and the Access to Public Information Unit (UAIP, for its acronym in Spanish).
To create an Observatory on Artificial Intelligence in the Government that promotes and fosters the ethical, responsible, safe, and reliable use of this technology, and strengthens the artificial intelligence ecosystem in Uruguay.
Goals and/or major milestones
- To generate spaces for the exchange of different interested sectors in order to devise recommendations, criteria, and technical standards that allow approaching the responsible, safe, and responsible use of AI technologies in the Government.
- To develop criteria and recommendations for the public Institutions providing guidelines for the transparency of the Algorithms in the applications using AI in the Government, in synergy with the effective regulations concerning Transparency and Access to Public Information.
- To promote the use of AI technology to benefit the population, taking into consideration certain aspects of ethics, privacy, responsibility, transparency, and non-discrimination; and to publish use cases of AI in the Government.
- To implement the Government AI Observatory, including guidelines, and use cases.
1.7 How to understand public budgets – Budget Literacy Actions
Office of Planning and Budget (OPP, for its acronym in Spanish) – Department of Information for Management and Open Government – Management and Assessment Area.
To design and implement budget literacy actions aimed at fostering effective access to the information by the citizens on this matter and to strengthen the budget transparency. To promote the inclusion of the subject matter and the use of the Budget Transparency Portal for the different kinds of users in different sectors of the public scope (example: Education).
Goals and/or major milestones
- To perform at least 3 Budget Literacy activities, such as:
- Webinars and/or lectures about contents of the Transparency Portal to public entities, Civil Society Organizations, and others.
- Playful activities for teenagers in High School (for instance, “Ministerra, prepare your budget” made by the BCU Educa program).
- To prepare, spread materials, and carry out activities that facilitate the inclusion of the Budget theme, in particular, and those contained in the portal, in general, inside the classroom, for the teachers of the different levels of the education system.
- Training sessions and virtual and in-person lectures. “The transparency Portal as classroom resource”.
- To publish at least 3 educational resources in Ceibal´s Open Educational Resources (REA, for its acronym in Spanish) portal.
- To design and incorporate at least 2 interactive games in the Budget Transparency Portal in connection with the different sections.
- To generate content to approach budget matters (transparency and accountability) aimed at leaders and teams of departmental and municipal governments throughout the country and to implement them through the Virtual Training Classroom in accordance with the training strategy of the Office of Planning and Budget for this audience.
1.8 Strengthening the oversight and accountability of compliance with the Law on Access to Public Information
Access to Public Information Unit (UAIP, for its acronym in Spanish)
To strengthen the oversight and accountability of the obligations imposed on parties regulated by Law no. 18,381 on Access to Public Information and its Regulatory Decree no. 232/010, through the development of a policy for the implementation and integration of 100% of the regulated parties to the Transparency and Access to Information National Index (INTAI, for its acronym in Spanish). Moreover, a plan for strengthening the transparency in departmental government and municipalities (third level of government) shall be implemented, so as to achieve the integration of all regulated parties into the index.
Goals and/or major milestones
- To implement a new methodology of the Transparency and Access to Information National Index (INTAI) in all regulated parties except to the municipalities that will be assessed on the second stage.
- To publish INTAI´s results in open data format and to develop a display panel to spread and facilitate access to the information obtained in each of the assessments to be performed during the period.
- To implement a plan for the promotion of the right of access to public information at the level of departmental and municipal governments, which includes a consultation round with interested actors, and to create a network of local mentors.
- To implement the INTAI in 100% of the regulated parties and to publish the obtained results.
1.9 Open Data Strategy for the 2021-2024 period
The Agency for e-Government and the Information and Knowledge Society (AGESIC) and open data working group made up of the Office of Planning and Budget (OPP), National Office of Civil Service (ONSC, for its acronym in Spanish), National Statistics Institute (INE, for its acronym in Spanish), Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM), Congress of Mayors, Open Government Network, School of Engineering – University of the Republic.
To implement the 2021-2024 National Open Data Strategy driving 5 lines of action: fostering the opening of data from the design in the diverse government scopes and levels, strengthening the national ecosystem, updating the reference framework by creating the first Metadata inventory about the data in possession of the Government, and promoting and supporting opening processes in themes concerning gender, anti-corruption, environment, climate change, health, parliament, justice, among others.
Goals and/or major milestones
- To update the reference framework about open data to foster the data opening from the design, including dimensions such as sex, gender, generations, ethnic-racial, and territoriality.
- To drive an open data community through a) the execution of at least 4 awareness and use promotion activities per year, with at least one of them aimed at subnational governments and b) the creation of an interinstitutional space to share knowledge and experiences, c) getting to know the data ecosystem to assess the implemented strategy.
- To develop transversal projects for the opening and publication of data including instances of citizen participation in the open data prioritization process in matters such as gender, anti-corruption, climate change, parliament, justice, among others.
- To develop a process of education data opening and publication, starting with Plan Ceibal data since the year 2019 in connection with the use of the Crea platform.
- To create and implement the first version of a national metadata catalogue that allows the mapping of all data available in the entities of the Executive Branch, generating a concept map that eases the access and uses thereof.
- To standardize and improve the publication of open data with regard to waste collection and cleaning, such as waste and containers of recyclable waste.