📋 Tender Overview
The message seeks to have an organization that organizes the interoperability of all public sector data, in order to streamline responses to certain requirements. Expressing doubts regarding how this new institutionality would materialize, the members of the continued the review of the project that creates the National Data Management System, which is in its first process. The message, with utmost urgency, establishes a common platform for the management, exchange and care of information in the public sector - including the National Congress and the Judiciary -, with the aim of reducing fragmentation in institutions, eliminating bureaucratic agreements and guaranteeing cybersecurity standards. In terms of a digital transformation of the State, it would join a series of initiatives that have marked the agenda in recent years, among them, the Law on the Digital Transformation of the State (2019), the Cybersecurity Framework Law (2023), the Law that creates the Digital Government Secretariat (2024) and the Law on Protection and Treatment of Personal Data (2024). The idea is that such important organizations as the Civil Registry, Fonasa, Internal Revenue Service, Comptrollers Office, municipalities, regional governments and social ministries, such as Social Development and Family; Education; Health and Housing access a unified data system that allows them to respond quickly and efficiently to their daily requirements. FINANCING The Commission heard from the director of the Digital Government Secretariat of the Ministry of Finance, Jose Inostroza, who answered the questions expressed by the senators on a previous day, thus the most frequently repeated queries were related to the financing of the project and its practical results. Regarding the first, the Executive assured that public financing is not required because it is more about organization, seeing the data that is dispersed and uniting or interrelating them according to certain requirements. It is about something more managerial. Given this, Senator Ximena Rincon and Senator Kenneth Pugh requested to know the digital investment that the country is making. Given this, Inostroza acknowledged that we are talking about about 359 billion pesos per year (educational programs, equipment and support, subscriptions, and maintenance and repair), which was described as low by the parliamentarians. Both Senator Ximena Rincon and Senator Juan Antonio Coloma pointed out that it is rare for a project to create an institutional framework that only comes to enhance what exists, but does not have the resources along with mentioning that intelligent data management is necessary, which we believe should be in a ministry closer to technology such as that of Sciences. For her part, the president of the Commission, Senator Ximena Ordenes, stated that the stages of this process are not clear because we are told that more data will not be accumulated, but that what exists will be used to connect institutions, but how will it be done. There is also the resistance of the organizations to provide information. Other questions were aimed at knowing how today the different public entities operate the data they produce, through bidding, to which the representative of the Executive admitted that today framework cooperation agreements are used in each organization. In general terms, the congressmen agreed with the initiatives diagnosis regarding the need to generate an organization for the organization of data given that today the different services manage their own technology and there are no organizational parameters in the public sector. However, the Commission agreed to prepare a list of guests from the computer science, cybersecurity and data engineering areas to be heard at the next hearings. After the text is approved in the Future instance, it will be the turn of the regulations under its jurisdiction to be reviewed. In the image, the director of the Digital Government Secretariat, Jose Inostroza.
