OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2025 19GOVERNMENT CIO OUTLOOKDATA GOVERNANCE IN GUANAJUATO STATEGerardo Guerrero Martinez, Chief Data Officer (CDO), Gobierno del Estado de GuanajuatoByirst of all, we think that data is one of the principal organizational assets. In a free and sovereign state government in México, we have different agencies with a lot of normativity and laws and different ways to visualize, define, read, store and use data.Data governance in Guanajuato is an attempt to define a common language to allow data to travel transversely with the same meaning for all. Focus on data related to government acts that generate public value.We need to answer immediately when, where and how much. Do we have evidence? How many people benefited from those acts, and what processes were improved? Etc.We found other efforts in the U.S. (Federal Data Strategy), Colombia (Data Strategy) and Spain (Spain 2015). Those efforts are related to digital transformation for the benefit of people.This is not a technology project; it is a technology-enabled project. However, the real challenge is cultural issues.The Challengesa) Difficulty in following up on planning instruments at different levels and dimensions.b) Difficulty integrating information from different transversal processes.c) Duplication of efforts making different productsd) We use specialized technological tools, disjointed from each other at different levels of information detail.e) Problems integrating information with the same approach and with intersectoral scope.f) Technological gaps between agenciesThe AchievementsHomologation and standardization of data for different purposes:a) Inter-secretary Commission for the Prevention of Violence and Crimeb) Planet Youth ­ Addiction preventionc) Focus on programs like childhood, social aid, ecological impact and infrastructure creation.We have collected a lot of data from agencies and analyzed them in a heat map format as follows.This map shows people helped compared with the amount of money applied.a) Ball size is the amount of money contained in that budget code.b) Balls go up depending on the budget spending. It is documented with evidences, like beneficiaries, location, description, classification, even photograph evidence.c) The indicators go right when the budget is really compromised or paid.Obviously, the ideal dashboard situation is that all budget codes (balls) are in the green quadrant.FWe can say that we have only one version of truth. All data with public value passes through data governance tools and falls into a repository used to make reports, maps, heat maps, and graphics.The main goal is monitoring public policy results and impacts with accuracy and opportunity.Another achievement is transparency in citizenship, with information on web portals and open data sharing with society.We have been awarded several times for transparency, monitoring and accountability.This is the base of a digital transformation. We have other departments that use AI and machine learning. We only deal with data quality and criteria homologation transversally among agencies.Guanajuato government is working on several projects going to a digital transformation:a) Data Governanceb) Infrastructure for all (Red GTO) is oriented to take free wi-fi internet to every city, school, hospital, etc.Gerardo Guerrero MartinezINSIGHTSCXO
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