Deadline: 10-Apr-25
The Inter-American Development Bank is pleased to announce its Gobernarte Competition: “Pablo Valenti Award” to identify, reward, support, and disseminate innovative initiatives in public management of subnational governments such as states, departments, provinces, regions, municipalities, or other equivalent designations in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Objectives
- Identify and reward innovative initiatives in public management to promote productivity, efficiency, and creativity through solutions that seek to improve government services and close digital gaps by strengthening institutional capacity;
- Document and disseminate these innovations to advance the agenda of strengthening institutional capacity and modernizing the State in LAC toward effective, efficient, and open governments.
- Facilitate cooperation among subnational governments, deepening knowledge of innovative experiences in public management and expanding their dissemination among interested stakeholders to contribute to strengthening institutional capacity and modernizing the State.
Categories
- Public innovation through Artificial Intelligence to improve the management of subnational government services
- Public innovation through digital identification for the provision of secure and accessible digital services at the subnational level
Thematic Areas
- Public innovation through Artificial Intelligence to improve the management of subnational government services
- Governance, regulation, ethics and transparency in the use of AI
- AI in the design and delivery of public services
- AI for data analytics, prediction, and decision making
- AI for accessibility and digital inclusion
- Public innovation through digital identification for the provision of secure and accessible digital services at the subnational level
- Authentication and identification through digital and/or biometric methods
- Integration and interoperability between levels of government
- Application of digital identity in public services
- Accessibility and digital inclusion
- Transparency and digital rights in digital identity
Eligibility Criteria
- Governments at the second administrative level (state, departmental, provincial, regional, or other denominations) and governments at the third administrative level (municipalities, or other denominations) of IDB borrowing countries may apply for their initiatives.
- Simple declaration from the subnational government that certifies: In the case of the Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, initiatives may also be submitted by the national government.
- Initiatives must be submitted by the government teams that designed them, establishing a contact person from the nominating government.
- Subnational governments may participate individually or in partnership with the national government or other subnational governments, international cooperation agencies, civil society, academia, or the private sector, among others.
Application Requirements
- Complete the online form presentation of the initiative on the Gobernarte website.
- Simple declaration from the subnational government that certifies:
- That all information included in the form, supporting documents, and any additional information submitted is accurate.
- That the executors have authorized the dissemination of the material provided.
- The proposed initiative must:
- Have been implemented by a second- or third-level subnational government, or a national government in the case of the Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
- Have demonstrable results or products, even if preliminary.
- Solutions that are projected or planned for future implementation will not be accepted.
- Not having received financing from the Inter-American Development Bank for its design and/or implementation.
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