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Figure 42: An illustration from the video promoting the new tools library

The Global Digital Marketplace Programme has been working with the PDN team in SESNA since
December 2019, supporting them to run a pilot project with three states (Chihuahua, Jalisco and
Oaxaca) with a focus on “System 2” and “System 3” of the PDN.

This involved managing collaborative delivery with a local supplier partner, supporting and working
as part of the PDN multidisciplinary technical teams, to develop a shared and scalable solution
to provide states’ data into the national platform via an application programming interface (API).

The results

In addition to developing the API, the PDN team is supporting:

• knowledge transfer to each pilot states’ technical teams, so that they are self-sufficient to use,
update and maintain the API; and

• the creation of API documentation and guides, which are necessary to reproduce the project
in other states.

Although the data currently collected on the national platform are still predominantly from the
Federal Government, there is now a new momentum behind the drive to connect state-level data.
Along with the data from Sonora and the State of Mexico, the states of Aguascalientes and Jalisco
are supplying conflicts of interest data and the three states participating in the pilot are on schedule
to add their buyers’ registers and disbarred lists in January 2021.

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