(TRANSPARENCY IN MEXICO THROUGH E-GOVERNMENT PLATFORMS: UTOPIA OR REALITY?)

Abstract

In recent years, several web platforms have been designed and implemented in Mexico at the national, state and municipal levels as mechanisms to promote transparency and accountability in order to provide the necessary mechanisms to guarantee access to public information for everyone, An example of these mechanisms implemented in Mexico is the Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia and the Sistema Nacional de Transparencia, as well as the web portals and individual platforms that each State and Municipality has enabled to inform citizens about public resources and the use that is given to them, with which, we could think that we are complying with an open and transparent government. For this reason, the objective of this theoretical analysis is to know if these platforms have really helped to improve the perspective of Mexican public institutions regarding transparency and open government or if it is simply a utopia dressed as reality. The analysis of various international indexes such as the Corruption Perception Index and the Transparency Index, as well as the examination of transparency web platforms, show that these e-government platforms have not really succeeded in legitimizing the Mexican government in terms of transparency, nor do they promote a clear notion of open government.