(Expansion) – There is an issue that has been discussed in recent days, perhaps as a strategy (which is most likely) the federal government announced on Friday, July 15, a , something that does not bode well and actually would seem plus a political issue to reverse transparency and achieve direct adjudications for the friends of the ‘Cuatroteanos’ friends.
CompraNet was our open platform for consultation on all service operations, contracts, purchases used by government agencies. The platform received international recognition and was a search engine, of course, to reinforce Mexican transparency.
In the face of the “temporary” suspension, concerns really arise, where the background is not clear, but between the lines and acts the fact that the platform provided an enormous amount of information is revealed, which became an obstacle for the current administration . With the suspension, it will only be possible to obfuscate the information and that there are many direct processes of purchase with public funds, which could not be reported, benefiting the close circle of the presidential family and their friends.
There is no technical opinion issued with clarity and depth of the failures and mechanisms to be implemented during the suspension of CompraNet, which leaves more doubts. The simple justification of “technical failures” is very ambiguous and personally I affirm that there has not been a major cyberattack whose precedence left notorious effects.
Let us remember months ago the blows to the INAI as a result of the tantrums made in the morning talks, without a doubt the precedent was clear that transparency hinders the personal interests of some political figures. The issue of CompraNet with a bad pretext and without clear justification is not surprising.
Thousands of contracts these days have been directly affected and the alternatives of continuing the process physically will lead us to a clear setback, inefficiency and slow operation.
A couple of questions arise: how does the government spend the money? And who will you buy from? All that remains for us is to be observers of the (again) actions against transparency to benefit those close to us and demand at least our right to information and inherent clarity.
If we go to a regulatory framework, the operation of the platform must be guaranteed to notify citizens of all government expenses. Perhaps the law does not matter when the justification is “don’t come with the law being the law”, a phrase that resonated in April and months later makes it clear that the law is the least important thing.
The effects will be collateral, not only dependencies, people in the processes, but also towards journalism, since perhaps the latter is an impediment to carrying out works “underwater” that should not be disclosed.
Goodbye CompraNet, goodbye transparency, let’s hope there is a setback; Let’s demand our rights…
Editor’s note: Carlos Ramírez Castañeda is a specialist and passionate about Computer Law, particularly in the areas of Cybersecurity, Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism. He has a Master’s Degree in Law of New Information and Communications Technologies from Santiago de Compostela Spain, Doctor in Administration and Public Policies from Mexico. He is a collaborator of various academic and government institutions, a professional always interested in cyber prevention issues, particularly with vulnerable sectors. Follow him on Twitter as . The opinions published in this column belong exclusively to the author.
