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Customer Success

Government of Chile

Chile Achieves Top

Ranking on Open

Data Barometer

“Junar enables Chile and

all governments to achieve transparency & earn public trust”

Andrés Bustamante Director of Electronic Government, Chile

CHILE JOINS OPEN GOVERNM ENT PARTNERSHIP September of 2011, the Government of Chile joined the Open Government Partnership (OGP), committing to improve access to public and government activities and information. This plan is intended to stimulate citizen engagement through policies for greater transparency and increasing levels of access to new technologies.

In early 2012, experts within the IT departments concluded that the mission required greater internal effort and development skills than they originally expected. They decided instead to find a commercially available system. Following careful evaluation of the best open data platforms available, Chile selected Junar to be their partner. The Junar system met all of the expectations of the country's leaders and promised that Chile would be amongst the first countries in the region to create a healthy Open Data ecosystem.

M AKING O PEN DATA FAST AND EFFICIENT In November 2012, the Junar portal was launch containing not only links to files but also data views, charts and dashboards that provided a positive user experience for their visitors. Junar also provided a specific API that enabled administrators to more quickly and efficiently import datasets while insuring a well managed publishing process.

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The Director of Electronic Government also wanted to make it as easy as possible for users to find data for each of its agencies. Junar’s Open Data Platform makes the implementation this type of filtering straightforward as shown in the user’s view below.

The hackathon was a total success with over 15 social applications being developed for this event. This was the first step into testing the readiness and awareness of the developer community while helping establish Chile as a regional leader in Open Data.

W ITHIN A FEW DAYS, A M AJOR FIELD TEST On the second week of November, only a few days after the Junar-powered platform was launched, it received its first major stress test. The government sponsored its first hackathon – CodeandoxChile – Coding for Chile. For 20 hours developers from around the country used (and abused) the Junar API.

25 out of 77 countries is where Chile ranks on the Open Data Barometer, topping Brazil and Argentina, and co-leading the Latin American region with Mexico.

See OD Barometer

500 resources loaded onto

Chile’s site as of end of 2013

50 new resources added weekly

Figure 1. Highlights of Various Sub-­‐pages Created on Chile’s Open Data Site

Junar

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With Junar, you can easily choose what data to collect, how you want to present it, and when it should be made publicly available. You can also specify which datasets are made available to the public and which datasets are available only for your internal use.

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Whether you want to integrate your data into your own website or have us host it for you, Junar provides a simple workflow that allows you to collaborate with your colleagues and manage your entire Open Data project. The platform also allows you to drive social conversations with the public, understand what data they want and what they find to be valuable. And, because you can add metadata to the information you publish, you will likely see improved use of your data due to search engine optimization. www.junar.com contact@junar.com 877-­‐499-­‐1558 delivers all of the benefits of SaaS (Software-as-a© 2013 Junar Inc. All rights reserved.

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innovation. We make it easy to deal with complex, end-to-end Open Data projects and turn the difficult task of opening data into a secure and controlled process. Finally, Junar offers a range of subscription plans to suit every organization: the more data you open, the less you pay per dataset. Â