"Digital Urbanism" Manifest

(Introduction)

As part of the growth and progress statements on "Open Government" worldwide:

We understand that Open Government expresses a new policy-making practices: a transparent

and collaborative that encourage citizen participation making management more efficient. And

the need for transparency in public information allows governments to implement cultural

processes aimed to regain the trust of citizens in their governments, thus creating better

conditions for participation.

We recognize that people are demanding more and better services to their governments,

demanding more opportunities for participation in governance, more transparency and efficiency

in the answers.

We note that the various stakeholders involved in the implementation of Open Government

strategies highlights the need to build new coexistence rules in digital environments, in order to

improve responses from governments to the community, as far as the efficient use of public data

is concerned. Nevertheless, there is still a huge gap between what current technology allows, and

the level of utilization of it by governments, in order to respond more effectively to the citizens.

(Agreements on statements)

In this act, we declare our commitment to the following:

• Promote Digital Urbanism to create, in digital territories normative conditions of coexistence,

that allow sustainable development of Open Government solutions, fully sharable, reusable,

regardless of local characteristics from each city of our country.

• Revamp or redesign processes taking advantage of current available technology, so citizens can

have a better access to information from government, adding value to information and facilitating

accessibility, and also recognizing that the processes to open data to the outside world implies

opening previous processes inside of governments.

• Establish a model to share data from their own sources in a safe, legal and auditable way. The

Data should be accessible to be used and reused by all state agencies, stakeholders and individual

citizens. And also, to cover a wide range of cases: from Habeas Data to Open Data regulations.

• Define and create essential digital utility, where its provision is secured by the state. And also,

releasing information services, to be potentially used by new citizens development.

• Increase access to technology to enhance citizen’s participation processes they allow. For this we

take the commitment to ensure the safety of the technological services, to expand connectivity

services and permanently to research on innovations and new opportunities.

• Encourage citizen participation to leverage current society’s knowledge, arbitrating collaborative

processes that enhance the effectiveness of public policies. For that reason, it is necessary to build

channels in order to exchange, development, implementation and evaluation of public policies.

We speak about a balanced model of exchange that gives certain rights to data owners, the

citizens.

• Give freedom to share their data, without having to worry about the tools they were produced.

Operating with open standards, to share forever.

• Give freedom to monitor and audit the legal and proper use of your data. Sharing information in

a safety and sustainable way.

• Give freedom to build new uses, based on each local need, without affecting existing systems. To

complete or extend unrestricted functional diversity.

We mean a pyramid of needs to support a sustainable model of open government.

(Conclusion)

The Digital Urbanism seeks to release society from the high costs that is paying for not being able

to share and reuse effectively and efficiently their data, processes and services.

To accomplish this goal, we should set a model for sharing data in a transparent, secure and

reliable way, respecting individual rights and, at the same time benefiting society as a whole. So if

the individual wins then society wins

Achieving a sustainable model of data exchange in a world of diverse and even conflicting interests

implies the need for a sustainable model of digital coexistence.

Express in this document the importance of Digital Urbanism to advance towards open

governments, and the need to build protocols applicable to work in Argentina, according to our

own cultural characteristics.

We acknowledge the progress being made by various local and national governments on Open

Government, and we assume the challenge of going in depth on these processes under the

mentioned principles, sharing and cooperating with every other who are willing to make concrete

progress and articulate the demands of today's society on increasingly complex contexts.