Gobierno abierto

la importancia de crear capacidades para la apertura

Abstract

The inclusion of commitments to the institutional strengthening and the creation of citizen capabilities encompassed in the Action Plans submitted to the Open Government Partnership (OGP), is of the utmost importance to measure the success of such policies in the region. Only actors and institutions with the due capability and disposition may develop Openness processes. OGP has shown little concern with government capabilities. As a result, we witness vain announcements, superficial commitment, lack of institutional integration to handle such policies and lack of competent policy-makers. These assertions are based on research carried out in 2017. Its goal was the identification of O-Gov regional orientations/trends/tendencies towards the institutional strengthening for openness. The sample consisted of the Second and Third Action Plans of Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay submitted to the OGP, and the independent evaluations carried out by OGP/this international organization. The author considered the analytical categories to evaluate the institutional capabilities for openness elaborated in Kaufman & Oszlak (2014, in order to analyze/process the information. Furthermore, she applied the methodology to measure institutional impact exposed in Implementation Size Model (ISM) by Criado et al. This research concluded that the OGP model guarantees no institutional strengthening at all, unlike OCDE’s and CLAD’s (Carta Iberoamericana de Gobierno Abierto/Ibero-American Open Government Charter) public declarations. These international organizations advocate opposite opinions about the importance of increasing institutional capabilities. Like us, they argue that the presence of institutional actors capable, cultural predisposed and integrated is a necessary condition to move towards the right direction.