Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente

Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente (Smart Citizen Foundation) was founded in 2009—a time when Chile’s new Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information had just come into force. Yet few Chileans were taking advantage of the law, which requires government agencies to reply to individual information requests and disclose operational costs, budgets and other information online. One reason was the complexity of submitting requests, which obliged citizens to wade through different requirements at different government agencies.

The NGO decided that something needed to be done...

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