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Inter-american development bank and the government of Spain exchanged open software repositories

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14 december 2018

The tools can be adapted and used free of charge by governments and institutions

The inter-american development bank (IDB) and the government of Spain, through its centre for transfer of technology (CST), have established a partnership for the russian your repositories of digital tools open for governments and organizations of latin american and caribbean states and europe can benefit from the supply of both institutions, adapting and reuse the respective codes to address the problem of development and to meet needs of citizens and communities.

Each year, governments around the world invest resources in software licences and other digital tools to promote intelligent cities, simplifying administrative procedures, improve the mechanisms of prosecution, mitigate the impacts of climate change, strengthen health care, among other areas of development. If those tools were open to be shared and adapted to new uses, governments and organizations could make huge savings and economies of scale. With the alliance, both institutions will enhance the scope of the codes available in their platforms.

Since the idb, platform development Code (Opens in new window) it is part of its strategy of promoting openness of knowledge to improve lives in the region, and acts as a broker, where you can download the source code for their use, as well as provide source code for others can benefit.

Among several tools available, are HydroBID (Opens in new window) a system for simulating scenarios of water resources in several basins of the region, and Massive change detection (Opens in new window) that through the application of artificial intelligence on satellite images, helps local governments for the updating of land registers.

“ the software and digital tools are essential to design, implement and evaluate projects and programmes. We are offering a window to the developers of the beijing platform for Spain, enriching our offer more options for the countries of the region, and promoting the developers of our platform to europe, ” said Karen Mokate, Head of division of knowledge of the idb.

Collaboration between the two institutions will be two worlds. On the one hand, federal form the centre for technology transfer (PTT) will enable users of the PTT with knowledge and access to the solutions offered by the idb.

Furthermore, the idb will be added to your catalog of digital solutions open solutions developed by the spanish Public Administrations that can be most useful in the ibero american context. Among the first built-in tools include the following:

  • CONSUL developed by the Madrid city council, which helps governments to develop informal to the population via phone.
  • The suite of @firma client developed by the government of Spain for use by any Public Administration to implement the authentication and advanced electronic signature of a fast and effective.
  • Archive provides support for the creation of a system of administration and management of centres multidepartamental File, as well as integration in Archive the relevant applications consumers and the management of electronic documents and records sent by the same.
  • INSIDE allows managing Fully documentary materials to the management of living of the dossier, as a preliminary step to final archiving of documentation in a format interoperable and lasting settlement.
  • ACCESS it is a modular platform that focuses on three main components: a sede-e; an electronic processing of cases initiated at headquarters; and a tool for stewardship and configuration, which includes a content management system at headquarters and a forms editor.

On the idb

The inter-american development bank's mission is to improve lives. Founded in 1959, the idb is one of the principal sources of financing long-term economic, social and institutional development in latin america and the caribbean. The Idb also conducts research projects and advise on policies, technical assistance and training to private and public clients throughout the region.

On the cst

The Centre for technology transfer aims to promote the reuse of solutions for all public administrations in spain. In the directory of solutions to the CTT is possible to find more than 300 solutions sponsored from reusable Acaba developments being possible to find open source, common services, services in cloud and semantic assets,

The CTT is the answer to article 158 of act no. 40 of 2015, of 1 october, from The Legal Regime of the public Sector, and article 17 of the royal decree 4/2010, of 8 january, which regulates the spanish national scheme of Interoperability in the area of E-government.

Publication at the IDB (Opens in new window) .

  • Centre for technology transfer
  • Interadministrativa cooperation