Creating digital spaces to view public information
The use of open data promotes institutional transparency. It contributes to citizens being more- and better informed andmakes for better government institutions.
From the start, InfoSegura has promoted an open data approach on the Project’s web platform and promoted the adoption of this approach among the agencies with which it works. Open data enables citizens to freely access, use and distribute information on citizen security.
Over these years, InfoSegura has supported the design and implementation of online portals, observatories, dashboards, and other digital tools in diferent countries, including:
- Violence Observatory of Costa Rica.
- Directorship for Information and Analysis (DIA), El Salvador.
- National Civil Police Transparency Portal, El Salvador.
- Missing Persons Portal of the National Civil Police (PNC), El Salvador
- Integrated Information System for Violence Prevention (SIPREVI), Vice Ministry for Prevention of Violence and Crime, Ministry of Governance (MINGOB), Guatemala.
- Integrated Information System for Policies of Coexistence and Citizen Security, National Centre for Information on the Social Sector (CENISS), Honduras.
- Citizen Security Observatory OSC-RD) presently the Centre for Analysis of Citizen Security Data (CADSECI) in the Dominican Republic.
- Dashboard to access public data and statistics provided by the Office of Security Sector Statistics of theNational Statistics Institute de Guatemala.
- Portal for the Judicial Statistics System of the Judicial Branch in Honduras. The system contains over one million digitized records from 2017 to 2021, with information sourced from 454 jurisdictional courts from across the country.
- Open data portal of the Secretariat for Security of Honduras. The system consolidates, classifies, and analyses information on 12 indicators: Homicide, sexual crime, injury, abuse, kidnapping, domestic violence, intra-family violence, extortion, theft, robbery including vehicle and motorcycle robbery and theft, adolescent pregnancy, returned migrants, road tra c death and suicide. The database has over 600,000 records starting from 2013. These records have been disaggregated by sex, age, and geographical area, among other items that make it possible to run analysis on national security, it also helps improve anticrime strategies.
- Website and ENDESA Dashboard of the National Statistics Institute of Honduras. https://ine.gob.hn/v4/ https://dashboardendesa.ine.gob.hn/home
- Updated crime database through 2020 for Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Belize, Costa Rica, and El Salvador, to inform public policy analysis.
- Digital information management platform for the Ministry of Justice and Peace’s Civic Centres for Peace, in support of implementation of the Costa Rica National Prevention Agenda.
- Platform for local discussion in the context of My Safe Country Plan.
- Case file management system for the special jurisdiction in charge of the Special Comprehensive Law for a Life Free from Violence for Women (LEIV).
- Updated and promoted the use of the reporting system for public health statistics on external cause injuries. This includes variables on violence against women.
- Integrated Information Management Platform (IIMP) in Belize.
- Dynamic crime incidence dashboard in Guatemala, for generating daily and monthly crime incidence reports in the country. This is used in evidence-based decision making for prevention.
- Public Ministry’s Prosecutor Management System in Honduras.
- Upgraded the Forensic Laboratory of the Belize National Forensic Science Service. This integrates data on physical evidence for use in criminal investigation in Belize, including data on homicide, suicide, accidental death, clandestine graves and other investigations into deaths, missing persons, road traffic incidents, other forms of gender-based violence, to name a few, all in a digital data management system.
- Prison Information Management System (PIMS). This system is for administering information on people deprived of liberty from their trial through prison. The system makes it possible for the police, judicial branch, and the Belize Crime Observatory to exchange information automatically.
- Improvements to the Crime Information Management System (CIMS) of Belize. An assessment revealed the main challenges in information management and a chart showing the flow of information was prepared. This served as the basis to propose ways the police can improve information management and flow, and data visualization for decision making.
- Public Access Dashboard for Data and Statistics on Sexual Violence, Exploitation and Human Trafficking in Guatemala.
- Social Conflict Dashboard enables the National Civil Police’s C-5 Crime and Conflict Command and Control Centre to issue regular evidence-based reports, to implement, monitor and follow up on operational plans and actions to reduce social conflict.
On the new operational project website, one can also access:
- Regional dashboard with over two million records on citizen security, violence against women and girls and related factors.
- Dahsboard with over 4,900 records on vulnerabilities and violence against LGBTQ+ populations in the countries of Central America. https://infosegura.org/dashboard-0
- InnovAcción platform is a databank of over 100 innovative, tested experiences from all over the world that are used as the basis for discussion and for identifying solutions.
