 Hello, good afternoon. This is the last panel of the day, so I hope you are still with energy. Well, the topic of this panel is what drives governmental change, if I'm not wrong. And I wanted to share with you a story that took place in the government of Buenos Aires City, which is where I work. And it's a story based on the development of a platform for mapping all the public works projects in the city of Buenos Aires, a project that uses civic tech resources, but eventually it had unexpected effects within the government. And that's the story I want to tell you today. I will go to the end of the story. I will show you how the platform that we design looks like, and then I'll tell you the story of the change. Can we put the video? Yeah. On the map of Buenos Aires City, every dot is a public works project. You can click on them, and it opens you more information with the progress of the public work, who's the contractor. Well, that was faster than I thought. You don't have time to. Don't worry. My team is very effective when it comes to time. So basically, I work for the area. I'm in charge of open government and public innovation at the government of Buenos Aires City. I work for the mayor who was elected in 2015. And when he got to the office, when he got elected, one of the things he asked to all his cabinet was that he wanted to be close to the citizens. He wanted to be close to the citizens, talk to them, get to know their problems, their view. He claims that we are a smart government, not because we are smart, a public official, but we realize that the intelligence is distributed within the society. It not always follows within the government. Sometimes it's outside. So it's very important to go and talk to citizens and get help from the citizens to solve public policy problems. So this is what we call the proximity strategy. The proximity is its value. The mayor meets three times a week with neighbors. We have estimated how many neighbors participate in this meeting throughout the year. It's around 100,000 neighbors that have the opportunity to have direct dialogue, either with the mayor or with the deputy mayor. So given this proximity value and the area that I'm in charge of, open government and public innovation, I started working with different areas of government to promote, to identify projects that could help us realize, take into practice these values, proximity, open government, public innovation. And therefore I started talking to the ministry of urban development and transportation on how to improve accountability for our public works portfolio. The government of Buenos Aires invests 26% of its budget on infrastructure. That's an enormous amount of money for those of you who are familiar with budgets in cities. And if you are not, it's extremely high. That means that we have lots of public works projects and we thought that helping this ministry to identify tools and strategies to be able to share all these projects and all this information with the citizens would not only be positive in terms of transparency and accountability, but also in terms of helping to enrich the communication with the citizens and find new ways to talk about public works with the citizens. So we came up with this idea of having a map with all the communes within the city and have a graphic design that can help you, that can help us tell the citizens about our projects that are buildings, basically architecture project, public space, infrastructure, transportation. So we identified 70 projects within that ministry and we started working on this platform and we started working also with neighbors, we had meetings with neighbors, with watchdogs, with civic tech organizations to give us feedback on this platform. So eventually we had a first draft of the platform that looks pretty much like that one. And once we had these 70 projects, we noticed that this did not match at all the amount and the scope of projects, public works projects that we have in the city of Buenos Aires. We discovered that there was a lot of density in terms of public works that could be added to the map, a lot of diversity in terms of the type of public works. We don't not only have urban development and transportation work, we have school infrastructure, hospitals, new police stations, we have different type of works that was missing from this map. And at the same time we considered that we were not meeting a transparency standard. The issue of public works in Argentina and Latin America for the last decade and a half has been quite controversial. If you are familiar, if you are following the events in Argentina, in Brazil, in other countries in the region, there are scandals of massive corruption. So we thought we could set up a new standard and use this platform to release or at least to make available to the citizens all the information, all the documents in terms of the contracting procedure, the contractor, the contracting mechanism and the contracting procedures that were used to award all the public works. So we decided to scale this to all the government. We started working with mid-level officials from different ministries. We asked them for information. We reached out to the Ministry of Security, the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Space, Ministry of Health Education asking them to give us all the information on public works that they had. Eventually, after two months, although we were not extremely successful, we managed to grow from 70 projects to 800 projects. And we moved from one ministry to 13 areas of government participating in this platform. Still, we didn't get all the information we wanted. The format in which we received the information was quite heterogeneous. There were ministries that describe the project in a very concise manner, very short, while others give us two pages of description for each project. So we were not satisfied with that. So we decided to take the project as it was with the new 800 projects that had in complete information to a cabinet meeting where the mayor and all the ministries were. And in this cabinet meeting, we had a very interesting effect. The tool, I would try to show it at the end again, more slow. The tool is very creative in terms of the graphs and visualization tools that we use. It's very interactive. You can click on a particular neighborhood. You can choose a particular type of public works. We did this platform together with a civic tech organization based in Buenos Aires. And all of a sudden, all the ministries became extremely interested in being part of that platform because they realized that it had an added value that when it made, at the time it was going to make public, there would be a lot of attention and media attention, request from other governments that want to use the same tool. So we had this kind of arm race phenomenon where all the ministry wanted to give us more and more information. And all of a sudden, we had an unexpected effect. We have all the ministries pushing for have more space in this platform. We completely changed the way in which projects were described or now projects are described because we set the new standard for describing projects in a manner that are friendly to neighbors, to the average citizen. Because of this platform, we ended having an enhanced management system for public work projects with more detailed information. Now, until this platform was launched, not all the ministries released documents on the contracting mechanism and who got awarded the public works. Now all the ministries have to meet that new standard. And at the same time, we generated a community, a network within the government that is the pillar or the ecosystem that is the backbone of this project. We started as a project run by my undersecretary and the ministry of public works. Now we have the chief of cabinet who is in charge of all the projects of the government and overseeing all the progress of all the projects. We have the secretary of communications that is using the information that comes from this platform to send information in a targeted manner through social networks to citizens. We have the area that deals with the communes of the city. The city of Buenos Aires is divided into 15 subsections. Each subsection has its own institutionality, its own authorities. So we are working with those authorities to send specific information on the public works that are taking place in each of the and the communes. And at the same time, this goes back to the beginning of the story, the mayor meets three times a week with citizens. We have now we have special like stands with we call them totems with a giant screen in every of these meetings. And in this screen, we have the platform and all the neighbors while they are, you know, as soon as they arrive, they start using the platform and they can see what public works are being undertaken in their neighborhood. And then they make questions to the mayor based on the information that they got through the through this totem with the screen as I told. And then I think as a final point, it helped us to establish a new way to dialogue about public works with the citizens. Now we have all our our public words are geo located. We have set a new standard for transparency and accountability. Every citizen can access to the information of who got awarded the contract. What's the name of the company? What's the progress on the on the on the schedule? How much money got paid? When is expected to finish to to to complete that that public works? You may imagine, you know, we have 800 public works at the same time in the city. You know, I would say that a lot, you know, large sections of the city are probably we have parks that are closed for renovations streets that are under renovation and major highways that are being constructed that causes travels in terms of traffic. For example, now we are able with information that comes from this platform, we are able to better communicate to citizens what's going on in the city where all these informations go is being converted into the standard format for transportation information. I think it's called GTFS if some there's an expert here on that type of information. Well, that information is now can be taken by Google, by Waze and other platforms and have their own system of alerts to citizens, whereas when a street is going to be cut because where it will be renovations taking place there. At the same time, all this platform is based on a data set that is open to the public. You just can click and download all the information on public works, which is generating a dialogue with civic tech organizations, with journalists and the media, of course, with NGOs that focus on urban development, with academics focusing on urbanism. So we believe it has changed the way in which we connect to citizens when it comes to public works. But as I said, at the same time, it has completely changed within the government the way in which we operate in terms of public works. I will see if it works. That's the name. VA stands for Buenos Aires. Obras means public works. And as here you can see the total investment we are doing in terms of public works, the amount of, or the little track is the amount of projects that we have, the completion, a percentage, how many people are we employing. And you can see, you can look at the works using the map. And that's the city of Buenos Aires. Every color stands for a different type of public works. When you click, let's say, let's check here, for example. These are major transformational work that is being done in the city center of Buenos Aires. It tells you the execution rate. And then if you want more information, you can go here. It says mass information. And it will open you more information, all the contracting information, et cetera. And then if you want, you can access information according to the neighborhood where you live. And it's the same information, but distributed in a different manner. And also you can organize them according to the levels of investment. This is already online. We're in the process of improving this platform to design a participatory mechanism for improving the quality of the information that we are giving to the citizens. Sometimes as public officials, we think this is the information they want. And when you meet with them, they tell you, you know, I'm not interested in who is the contractor. I prefer to know when the work is going to be completed. So as part of the national action plan within the Open Government Partnership, we as a city, we uploaded a commitment as a national commitment, which is to have this participatory mechanism to improve the platform. Thank you very much.