The Digital Government Review of Latin America and the Caribbean was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski. The work was co-funded by CAF, development bank of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Review was produced jointly by the OECD Open and Innovative Government Division, under the direction of Carlos Santiso, Head of Division, and supervision of Barbara-Chiara Ubaldi, Head of the Digital Government and Data Unit; and CAF Digital Transformation Directorate, under the direction of Mauricio Agudelo, Head of the Digital Transformation Directorate, and supervision of María Isabel Mejía, Senior Specialist on Digital Government and Public Innovation. The project is framed under the OECD Global E-Leaders Initiative (GELI) to foster policy dialogue and co-operation on digital government and public sector data policies between OECD member and partner countries.
Chapter 1 was written by Ricardo Zapata, Chapter 2 was written by Alex Seemann, Chapter 3 was written by Arturo Rivera, Chapter 4 was written by Felipe González-Zapata, and Chapter 5 was written by Jamie Berryhill, Policy Analysts in the Open and Innovative Government Division. All chapters benefitted from substantive inputs from María Isabel Mejía, and strategic orientation and revisions by Barbara-Chiara Ubaldi. Felipe González-Zapata was the lead co-ordinator of the Review. Colleagues from within the OECD reviewed the report and provided comments, including Jacobo Garcia Villareal from GOV Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division (IPP) and Manuel Flores Romero from GOV Regulatory Policy Division (REG). The report also benefited from the expertise of the OECD Working Party of Senior Digital Government Officials (E-Leaders).
This Review would not have been possible without the participation and invaluable contribution of 14 LAC countries and members of CAF: Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. The OECD Secretariat and CAF would like to acknowledge the contribution of all public officials from LAC countries that participated in the survey, joined the virtual missions and contributed to the online workshops amidst their efforts to respond to and recover from COVID-19 pandemic. The Secretariat and CAF are also grateful for their comments and feedback provided to this report prior its finalisation and publication.