Colnodo

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Colnodo is a based organisation that has deployed the use of information and communications technology for development.

Julian Casasbuenas of Colnodo, and his team, have been credited with directing successful internet projects for Municipal Mayoral Accountability (Internet para Rendición de Cuentas del Alcalde Municipal) in their home-country of Colombia.

They have been partners in implementing the Basic Municipal Information System (Sistema de Información Básico Municipal) that was developed with the Regional Autonomous Corporations (Corporaciones Autónomas Regionales) and the Environmental, Housing and Territorial Development Ministry ([Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial]). The first is based on the use of the Free Software tool called ActionApps and the second has an important free software use component for geographic information systems.

For these projects, worked out earlier this decade (around 2003-04), Colnodo and Transparencia por Colombia (Transparency for Colombia) partnered with the mayors' offices in four cities. They produced online websites to fight corruption and increases the uses of government-generated information by the public and social organisations.

These websites were aimed at monitoring and verifying public spending, and publishing information in a "user-friendly format" for citizens to consult. These initiatives were undertaken in the medium-sized cities of Pasto, Buga, Rionegro and Popayan in Colombia. One initiative was from the Municipio de Rionegro.

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