Ojoconmipisto

Ojoconmipisto is like a three-legged stool: it supervises the use that local governments make of public funds, trains departmental reporters and encourages citizen participation. It is a Guatemalan media that promotes transparency and the fight against corruption through its investigations and reports. It uses data journalism, open portals and the Law on Access to Public Information for its own investigations. Ojoconmipisto shares what it learns with neighbors, community leaders and authorities because it believes that informed people make better decisions. Promotes training and discussion spaces so that everyone grows. Translate regulations, speeches and figures into everyday language. And it uses the data to generate consultation tools. It tells stories in different formats and insists on finding the municipal angle to everything that happens. Ojoconmipisto provides tools to departmental journalists, through training and support, so that they are the ones who oversee the quality of spending in their municipalities. They learn to use the portals where mayors register purchases and learn about the laws that affect municipal administration, such as the State Procurement Law and the code. Thanks to the information published in the media and social networks, Ojoconmipisto is a reference on how local governments spend public funds, and is a source of consultation for other colleagues and researchers.