Crime and security are one of the main topics in the agenda of Buenos Aires City, for a long time. To address the challenges facing the public sectors, regarding the safety of the citizens has been a great point of discussions and multidisciplinary work.

In order to provide the Ministry of Justice and Security a tool that offers an integral vision of the information of the territory of the City available for decision-making policies, a Security Bureau was formed with members of different areas of the Government.


One of the first needs that were covered, was the implementation and design of a Security Map generated with the information available in the General Directorate of Information Sciences database, alongside the areas that decided to collaborate in the first stages of the project. From this first installment of the Security Map project, we detected the need to develop a Predictive Crime Model, that will allow various analysis based on historical information, future trends in data in the territory and to generate indicators that allow areas within the city to be identified.

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• Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• The poor

As most of the products and services we provide, we want them to be replicable to other cities and provinces in Argentina. Since our main objective is to become an open city, sustained by the values of transparency, open data culture, these aspects will allow us to share our know-how and collaborate so that different government agencies can implement this type of model in their administrations.
That’s why we believe that this project is replicable as long as the different local governments can gather the necessary data. We provide consulting services to implement the variables and indicators according to the available data of each area. We also want to provide more tools and developments in open software and source to feed the community that advocates them.

At the present, we detect that in our region there is a general need to advance in the spatial analysis and move from observation, diagnosis and evaluation to the possibility of predicting the occurrence of future criminal events and thus improving the quality of life of citizens and especially those who are in the most vulnerable sectors of the city. This is why criminal mapping has become one of the main tools of governments in security management. We understand, according to academic work on the subject, that a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach is necessary to address it and, thus, be able to successfully integrate innovative technological tools. We recognize that information science has a central role in the development of the Information Society and the participation on different aspects of the social life.