Buenos Aires Data is the open data policy of the City of Buenos Aires, which kicked off in 2012 with the signing of Decree 156/2012 which created the public data platform data.buenosaires.gob.ar to facilitate the search, discovery and access of open data produced by the City, with the aim of promoting transparency, participation and collaboration.
The main objectives of Buenos Aires Data are to promote innovation and economic development, promote public policies based on evidence, empower citizens, save resources and strengthen democratic institutions.
The open data portal, data.buenosaires.gob.ar, already has more than 1000 resources from all areas of the central administration, including the executed budget, salaries of officials, sworn statements, purchases and hirings, as well as information on the operation of the Subway, the public bicycle system or citizen services.
In terms of impact, the City has developed more than 54 digital products and developments based on open data from the academic sector, non-governmental organizations, businesses and citizens, among others, giving an account of the vibrant community of re-users that this kind of policies creates.

https://data.buenosaires.gob.ar/

• Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• People with disabilities
• The unemployed
• The poor
• Migrants
• Refugees and internally displaced people
• Remote and rural communities
• All the citizens from the City of Buenos Aires

The open data portal of the City of Buenos Aires is based on an Open Code, so everyone can replicate it (More information at https://github.com/gcba-odin/odin).
Likewise, the Open Data Policy is published on the web, so any country, city or organization that wants to initiate a similar policy can access that documentation and reuse it. (Information available at https://datosgcba.github.io/guia-datos/)

This project is sustainable because publishing all the data at the portal, it is friendly with the environment. Also, it is a policy that has been developing for many years which shows the commitment of the administration to continue making public all the actions and expenditures of the public sector, strengthening accountability and empowering citizens.

In a context in which data is of vital importance in our daily lives, access to reliable information becomes a fundamental human right for the full development of human beings. Buenos Aires Data promotes access to information in reusable formats, openness, participation and collaboration, thus resulting in more empowered citizens, public policies based on evidence and strengthened democratic institutions. All these are in line with the WSIS values. In order to continue consolidating the openness and transparency of the government, the opening of data is an essential policy for the 21st Century.