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QueremosDatos.co

📍 Colombia · 2016 · Datasketch

Scale

local

subnational

national

systemic

Description

Public platform for freedom of information (FOIA) requests built on mySociety's free software Alaveteli and operated since 2016-2017 by Datasketch with mySociety and journalists from Bogotá. Any citizen can request information from the State; the team processes and publishes the response. Active in 2026, with ~2,876 requests to more than 6,400 public bodies, under the 2014 Transparency Law.

Linked evidence

▦Introducing QueremosDatos: making access to information easier in ColombiamySociety · 2017Evidence ▦Queremosdatos.co (ficha de caso)LATINNO - WZB Berlin Social Science Center · 2020Evidence