Cultural Buenos Aires: openness of information on cultural promotion actions. (BUE0014)

Link with the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 (SDG) SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities Status quo / Issue to be addressed One of the work axes raised by the City is the design of an enjoyable city at human scale. We seek to contribute to make a city designed for people, more connected, with initiatives which contribute to improve citizens’ enjoyment and experience in the City. The promotion of the use of public space and implementation of improvements in a collaborative manner. In this context, we identify several situations to be addressed: • Existence of different types of obstacles in the public space (darkness, physical obstacles, their state), which particularly affect people with reduced mobility (older adults, disabled people, etc.) • There is lack of knowledge about the urban planning and construction code among citizens, mainly because it is difficult to nderstand for non-experts. • Marginalisation (exclusion) of older people in the public space and surroundings (housing, public services, transport services, businesses, among others) • The Ministry of Culture contributes significantly to the development of independent culture in the City through the policy on promotion of diverse artistic disciplines. The information related to the actions for funding independent culture conducted by the Ministry is partially published in a fragmented manner.

General objective To think and achieve an enjoyable human scale city through different open government initiatives. We propose: • Improve public space accessibility in the City through tools which involve different open government pillars, guaranteeing safe transitability and accessibility environments, thus contributing to the re-dimensioning of Buenos Aires at human scale. • Promote and simplify the access to the information about the new urban and construction code to support knowledge and improvement. • Promote integration of older people into the public space and surroundings, adjusting them to their requirements. • Improve the access to information related to the promotion actions conducted by the Ministry to foster the development of initiatives on the field of diverse artistic disciplines.

Brief description of the initiative The Human Scale City commitment has different lines of action aimed at improving neighbours’ experience in it. These experiences are: Design and implement a collaborative georeferenced platform of diverse aspects of the public space. It will allow for the report, control and follow-up of repairs and “obstacles”. Likewise, there will be channels to receive citizens’ suggestions related to public space (in terms of accessibility) Generate friendly, accessible and clear information for citizens to be able to know the possibilities and conditions for building in the City, main characteristics, cadastral information and information on the situation of asset protection of each plot of land. We will simplify the information regarding use of plots of land and infrastructure works status, facilitate the identification of new building opportunities, and we will provide open data and tools to analyse the urban profile of the City. Make the challenges of aging nowadays visible and incorporate the old age perspective into the strategic planning of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (GCBA). Promote the openness of data related to the offer of activities for older adults in the City of Buenos Aires. Contribute to the improvement in the access to information related to funding, projects and beneficiary agents of the actions which promote culture through its publication in the website of the Ministry of Culture in a downloadable format.

Describe the way in which this commitment is relevant to strengthen OGP values of transparency, access to information, public accountability, civic participation, and technology and innovation for openness and accountability The initiative of the platform for innovation of sidewalks is robust and it contemplates the diverse open government pillars since it strengthens transparency, access to information, accountability and it promotes civic participation through a collaborative stage of interaction with neighbours. By implementing a platform that provides information on urban code in a simple manner, we guarantee citizens access to information. For this reason, the commitment is relevant in terms of transparency. Likewise, the provision of information in a friendly and pedagogical manner will allow for the interaction with the citizens, letting them know the construction possibilities and conditions. The openness of data on older adults’ situation, services and the offer of activities for this sector of the population contribute to strengthening the OGP values of transparency, access to information and accountability; likewise, it can promote civic participation through the reuse of information. The culture initiative will allow the access to systematised information on the actions which promote culture, in a downloadable format; this will mean a progress in terms of transparency and improvement in the access to information. Likewise, the project will contribute to accountability since it includes the provision of budgetary information related to the policy on promotion of cultural activity in the City.

Milestones Ongoing or new commitment Start date End date 4. Cultural Buenos Aires: openness of information on cultural promotion actions. 4.1 Consolidation and systematisation of information on actions which promote artistic initiatives from the Ministry of Culture. These actions are: Proteatro; Prodanza; Pro escritores; BA Música; BA Milongas; Mecenazgo and the Metropolitan Fund for Culture, Arts and Sciences (FMA). Ongoing December 2018 March 2019 4.2 Publication of systematised information in open format related to budget, granted funding, projects and beneficiary agents of the actions of promotion of culture. New August 2019 August 2019 4.3 Diffusion and circulation of information to be reused and displayed. New August 2019 March 2020

9. BA Cultural: Apertura de información de líneas de fomento a la cultura

Sustancial:

Los tres hitos del compromiso se cumplieron de forma sustancial, con una leve modificación del hito número tres sobre difusión y circulación de la información cultural en el marco de la crisis por la COVID-19.

En materia de consolidación y sistematización de la información, se identificaron los atributos en común de todas las líneas de fomento (Proteatro; Prodanza; Pro escritores; BA Música; BA Milongas; Mecenazgo; Fondo Metropolitano de la Cultura, las Artes y las Ciencias (FMA)), se normalizaron los campos (disciplina, año, monto solicitado, monto otorgado, responsable del proyecto, proyecto presentado y DNI/CUIT), unificando las bases de datos en un solo archivo y seleccionando un identificador único para los proyectos presentados. Durante el primer año de implementación se avanzó en la publicación de la información a través de la web Data Cultura en la que actualmente se pueden encontrar gráficos, mapas y datos estadísticos sobre la cultura en la ciudad y se pueden acceder a las actividades culturales, a un mapa de espacios culturales, y a datos y estadísticas clasificados por disciplina artística y por tema de interés [50].

Finalmente, si bien por el contexto de la pandemia no se pudo realizar una campaña de difusión activa de los sets de datos publicados, sí se reorientó la difusión de los programas pautados a otros más relevantes, tales como el Programa “Cultura en Casa” [51] una iniciativa para acercar la programación cultural a las casas de los ciudadanos [52].