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We produce websites, visualizations, consulting and data-driven research for journalistic projects.
Cultural heritage available to all
Datasketch
The history and culture that are stored in books can be transformed into digital products that everyone can use. We did that with the Gran Libro de la Cocina Colombiana, published by the Ministry of Culture, which contains information on 700 of the nation's recipes. Through R programming, format conversion, interviews, and programming, we consolidated a multimedia report that invites users to explore the culinary tradition at their leisure. At the same time, we created a tool to identify and develop recipes according to the practices in the regions.
Culture, Feeding
Alert and raise awareness
Datasketch
We raise awareness about crises such as gender-based violence in Latin America through data-driven communication strategies. We incorporate research and citizen advocacy methodologies with public data. By accessing, organizing, and visualizing information, we create content to reinforce messages in favor of justice. Large-format mosaics, composed of data, graphics, and images, allow us to dimension how issues manifest themselves in different contexts.
Feminism, Humans Rights, Citizen participation
Women and Indigenous communities
Agenda Propia
We collected, analyzed and visually communicated the data of this collaborative journalism project that narrates the leadership of indigenous women in the Colombian Amazon. To do so, we developed the web platform where the stories, audiovisual material, graphics and a freely accessible data repository are integrated. The project was a finalist for the Gabo Awards in 2021.
Feminism, Indigenous communities, Journalism, Gender gap
Oversight of Congress through access to information
Cuestión Pública
This is the first journalistic investigation on the assets and income of Colombian members of Congress, for which we developed the website and data visualizations. Using Datasketch technology, the journalistic reports are connected, money flows are presented, and the immersion of private interests in politics is evidenced. However, the website's primary goal is to facilitate the application of transparency laws, download public information, and better oversight of the legislative branch.
Journalism, Access to information, Anti-corruption, Public Procurement
Rastrear el dinero en la política
Transparencia por Colombia
This investigative report exposes the relationship between political campaign financing and public contracts. We developed it with Transparencia por Colombia to unveil possible corruption schemes and the incorporation of private parties. To achieve this, we analyzed a large volume of data that provided us with the inputs to write stories and create data visualizations and a web platform to explore them.
Anti-corruption, Elections, Public Procurement
Enhancing the use of data
Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism - CCIJ
We train journalists in data visualization and analysis. We work with international organizations such as the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ) network. We also support media outlets to leverage their data, propose investigations based on access to information and create content based on graphics, massive contract search tools, and dashboards.
Journalism
Guides for journalists
Consejo de Redacción
We created a training module on data structuring, cleaning, visualization and analysis. It contains a list of digital tools for journalistic work and explanatory virtual resources to encourage self-learning.
Journalism, Open data
Anti-corruption data
Ojo Público
Within a microsite on the Ojo Público website, we integrate visualizations, research articles, data management and an algorithm that weighs corruption risk scenarios in public procurement in Peru.
Journalism, Anti-corruption, Access to information
Memory for the victims of femicide violence
Cuestión Pública
The webspace Ya no estoy aquí, which we developed for Cuestión Pública, presents the stories of victims of femicide during the months of most significant confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia. The space focuses mainly on reconstructing the women's identities, reversing the silence left by the killer by replacing it with anecdotes and memories provided by the victim's family and friends. The platform allows stories to be developed in multimedia format, allows navigation between reports, and presents data visualizations.
Feminism, Journalism, Design
The geography of transgender struggles
Sentiido
We developed an interactive map with the media Sentiido to compare the situation of trans rights in 19 Latin American countries. The tool shows the relationship between laws on gender identity, change of name, gender marker, regulation of sex work, transfeminicides, and trans people in elected public office.
Humans Rights, Gender diversity
We accompany public sector entities from the opening of data, focused on the needs of citizens, to its dissemination with different groups.
Technology to understand the territories
Gobernación Sucre
We detail the artistic-cultural heritage of Sucre, Colombia, through an information system that integrates different data sources in tables, dashboards, maps, graphs, and pages with multimedia content. It was built with the help of public entities, civil society organizations, and collectives.
Culture, Access to information, Citizen participation
Open Government Monitoring
GIZ
We developed an information system to follow up on Ecuador's commitments to the I National Action Plan for Open Government (PAGA). The system includes a visualization tool that shows indicators, obligations, and milestones. It also allows officials to upload the progress of their respective entities, which updates the graphs and downloadable databases from the web.
Open State, Anti-corruption
Facilitating accountability
Alcaldía de Palmira
We create data communication strategies for local governments to show how public resources were planned and are being invested. For example, within a web page, we explain how social control can be exercised and release information on contracting, including findings such as the agencies that allocate the most contracts, the months with the most bids, and the total amounts. The data that feeds the tools can be downloaded and verified, allowing citizens to make their own visualizations and generate new investigations.
Open State, Public Procurement, Access to information
Facilitating accountability
Alcaldía de Jamundi
We create data communication strategies for local governments to show how public resources were planned and are being invested. For example, within a web page, we explain how social control can be exercised and release information on contracting, including findings such as the agencies that allocate the most contracts, the months with the most bids, and the total amounts. The data that feeds the tools can be downloaded and verified, allowing citizens to make their own visualizations and generate new investigations.
Open State, Public Procurement, Access to information
Identifying the political spectrum
Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE)
With the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Colombia, we carried out this project to provide information on the government, opposition, and independence statements of political parties and movements at the municipal, departmental and national levels. This data can be visualized geographically, as rankings, or as networks, depending on what the user wants to investigate.
Open State, Access to information, Citizen participation
Data for democracy
El fondo rotatorio de la registraduria nacional del estado civil
Datos para la Democracia seeks to improve access to electoral, civil registry, and identification information, following open data standards. We developed the platform thinking about facilitating the search, identification and download of information, with designs focused on the target audience of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Electoral Affairs (CEDAE) and a dashboard with preset questions and multiple graphics. In addition, virtual training programs are also available for citizens and officials of the National Registrar's Office, Colombia's primary electoral entity.
Open State, Access to information
Open data for access to information
CDMX
We implemented the web and developed the visualization tools for the Open Data Portal of Mexico City.
Open State, Access to information, Open data
Representing through data
Secretaría Distrital de Planeación de Bogotá
We assisted in the consolidation of an information system on the LGBTI community in Bogota, improving the route of attention to cases of discrimination and violation of rights. To this end, we accompanied officials of the Directorate of Sexual Diversity in the analysis, development, and implementation of technological processes, which included the extraction and integration of different data sources.
Gender diversity
Supporting institutions to open up their information
Ayuntamiento de Madrid
In the framework of the GovtechlabMadrid program, in collaboration with Desidedatum we implemented a pilot data science solution to convert the public information of the Madrid City Council into easily accessible knowledge for its citizens. We created a customized tool that allowed workers from different areas to upload datasets, cross-reference them with other users' databases and create visualizations very simply. The tool featured graph recommendation algorithms to quickly transform structured and unstructured data from that entity into content within its web platform.
Open State, Civic Tech
Accessible public data
GIZ
We redesigned Ecuador's Open Data Portal by diagnosing international best practices, user-centered design, and workshops to improve information management and web implementation. The process was based on the pillars of open government, seeking to promote, in a practical way, participation, transparency, and accountability. As a result, the portal has functionalities for public entities to publish their data, and for citizens and civil society to access them.
Open State, Access to information
Based on their global vision, we create platforms, tools and data communication strategies that strengthen the focused, regional and local work of organizations. We broaden the reach of their audiences by linking their knowledge to the information generated from the communities.
Improvements and changes in transportation
New Urban Mobility Alliance (NUMO)
This platform consolidates a list of mobility and public space actions that changed the mobility landscape after the Covid-19 pandemic. The actions were identified from a series of sorted, harmonized, and consolidated databases to feed a visualization tool with maps and other graphics.
Public Space, COVID-19 pandemic, Mobility
Demystifying and verifying
UNFPA
As a strategy to end misinformation about contraceptive methods, UNFPA Colombia analyzed more than 330 thousand tweets related to sexual and reproductive health. To present the results of their research, we created an interactive website for them, with navigation focused on a young audience and with dashboards that offer the evidence in a synthesized way to refute prejudices, taboos, and myths.
Health, Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Analyze and communicate the effectiveness of laws
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
This project compares personal data protection laws in Latin America and the Caribbean and their level of compliance with the Ibero-American Data Protection Standard. We made available data from multiple sources and reports through an online information system that presents the research results through downloadable visualizations, dashboards and data tables.
Digital rights, Humans Rights
Promoting better living conditions
Hivos
We designed and implemented an accompaniment program to strengthen the monitoring, analysis, and visualization of data for organizations working for the well-being of people living with HIV. As a result, the organizations, which are part of the Hivos network in Latin America, benefited from the appropriation of open data to create advocacy strategies, new narratives, public policy analysis, and use of public resources.
Humans Rights, Gender diversity, Health, Access to information, Journalism
Oversight of public resources
Open Contracting Partnership (OCP)
We created a public procurement alert system in Ecuador with an implementation of algorithms, data analysis tools and a microsite with visualizations.
Open State, Access to information, Public Procurement
Determining the quality of open data
Open Data Charter
With Open Data Charter, we conducted a consultancy on open data for the fight against corruption in Uzbekistan. We applied one of the main ODC guidelines to determine the existence and status of the 30 datasets that the nation should have to fight corruption, which is essential for civil service monitoring and investigation.
Open State, Access to information
Strengthening the use of open data
Hivos
We trained members of HIVOS national committees in open data requesting, data-driven content creation, and information analysis, mainly related to the quality of public spending to care for HIV patients. The knowledge enabled the committees to sustain and nurture their observadatos.org platform.
Journalism, Humans Rights, Health, Access to information
Public Policy on Reforestation and Environmental Care
Open Government Partnership
To comply with public policy commitments on reforestation and environmental care in Ecuador, we are developing two information systems that improve the management of general data and the visual analysis of the reports of the entities in charge. This way, international and national organizations and all interested parties will have online tools for monitoring.
Access to information, Open State, Environment
We help you benefit your target audiences by communicating your research, reports and databases through attractive and user-friendly sites.
Exposing gender-based violence
Acción Colectiva de Objetores y Objetoras de Conciencia
Through a multimedia journalistic special, we make visible how gender-based violence perpetrated by law enforcement agents in Colombia manifests itself. In collaboration with the Acción Colectiva de Objetoras y Objetores de Conciencia (Collective Action of Conscientious Objectors), the issue is addressed through testimonies, data analysis, and access to public information. The special, published on our website, contains texts, visualizations, timelines, illustrations, and podcasts with the voices of victims and defenders.
Feminism, Humans Rights, Citizen participation, Gender gap
Explain phenomena and public measures
Karisma
We designed and developed for the Karisma Foundation a web microsite that presents the details of their report on cell phone theft in Colombia. The microsite has visualizations, graphic identity, and research articles that facilitate the communication of figures and the evaluation of public policies.
Digital rights
Informing investment in healthcare
Coalición Internacional de Preparación para el Tratamiento (ITPC)
We designed and developed the website to present intuitive and user-friendly reports on public spending on anti-retroviral drugs in Guatemala. The website offers the content through research articles, visualizations, and a data explorer.
Health, Public Procurement
Achieving goals with the help of data
Diálogos Guatemala
We do consult for strategic communication using data and user-centered design. We have worked with organizations such as Diálogos, in Guatemala, performing data source assessment, information organization, approaches to visualization tools, and project management.
Humans Rights
The biodiversity figures
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE RECURSOS BIOLÓGICOS “ALEXANDER von HUMBOLDT”
We created a web platform that shows a complete list of open data on biodiversity in Colombia. They are presented through a dashboard, visualizations, and repositories. In addition, the user can connect variables to understand phenomena such as species trade and access a list of national and international information sources.
Environment
Thinking for better data governance
Karisma
We analyzed the draft of Colombia's National Data Infrastructure Plan, which seeks to drive the digital transformation of the State and develop a data-driven economy. The review revealed areas for improvement to create a more democratic, open, and inclusive Plan, articulating current national and international standards and public policies. The project was carried out with the Karisma Foundation and the Latin American Initiative for Open Data (ILDA) sponsorship.
Open State
Monitoring technology
Derechos Digitales
Facial recognition has advanced rapidly and quietly in Latin America. With international organizations, we created a web platform to showcase the various systems operating in the region and their risks. In addition, users have access to a database and visualizations detailing suppliers, public procurement, and the countries where this technology is implemented most.
Digital rights, Humans Rights, Access to information, Public Procurement
We automate processes so that companies can focus on their growth, confident that they will process and analyze their data with the quality that their industry demands.
Facilitating the use of data
Pipeline Solutions
We create tools for companies to access fast and reliable visual analysis of their data. Automatic reports are generated with easy-to-edit tables and suggestions for using suitable graphics, providing content that can be shared with internal or external audiences.
Entrepreneurship, Economy
in 5 phases
Access and Cleaning
We support you in mapping data sources to enrich your project with reliable and verified information.
Structuring
We facilitate consolidating information in reusable and accessible formats to scale solutions and accompany you in qualitative research.
Design
We use design thinking exercises to create with you the interfaces and interaction of the graphical concepts appropriate for your project.
Algorithms, models and data integration
We customize algorithms and models to power your data applications and scale manual processes with automated information integration.
Development: Visualizations, dashboards and websites.
We implement adaptable visual products to explore and explain your data in customized formats for each user profile.
