Open source code that crosses borders
Summary
"We must stop reinventing the wheel," says Dinorah Cantú-Pedraza, head of the Secretariat of Innovation and Citizen Participation of San Pedro Garza García, a municipality of the Monterrey metropolitan area in northern Mexico. This authorizes anyone to execute, copy, distribute, study, change or improve the original software, in order to encourage open collaboration. In 2018, the Secretariat of Public Works of San Pedro Garza García launched an ambitious effort to be more transparent about the projects underway in the municipality. With support from Buenos Aires and in just one month, the San Pedro team adapted the code to their requirements and made the new platform available to citizens, demonstrating that open source has the potential to improve the social and economic development of a city. So, it is a tool that is constantly alive," says Soledad Zárate, general coordinator of institutional quality for the government of the city of Buenos Aires.